Drocket
09-01-2006, 09:20 AM
I'm sure everyone here knows Senator Stephens of Alaska - Good old Mr. 'the internet is a series of tubes', the guy who fought for a $200M bridge to a virtually uninhabited island, the man who put a secret hold on a bill designed to make government spending more transparent and easier to trace, yadda, yadda, yadda. Well, yesterday, his son (who's a senator in the Alaska legislature) had his office raided by the FBI:
Federal agents raid legislative offices (http://www.adn.com/news/government/story/8144609p-8036832c.html)
Federal agents swarmed legislative offices around the state Thursday, executing search warrants in a coordinated series of raids that appeared to target the longstanding relationship between the oil-field service company Veco and leading lawmakers.
Above Anchorage’s 4th Avenue, FBI agents spent most of the afternoon behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of the fifth-floor offices of Senate President Ben Stevens and Senate Rules Committee Chairman John Cowdery, both Anchorage Republicans. Through slits in the blinds, one agent in Stevens’ office, wearing rubber gloves, could be seen packing away evidence in a container.
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In disclosures he was required to file as a legislator, Stevens said he was paid $243,000 over the last five years as a “consultant” to Veco. Whenever he was asked to describe what he did for the money, Stevens refused to answer. The company also refused to say.
Federal agents raid legislative offices (http://www.adn.com/news/government/story/8144609p-8036832c.html)
Federal agents swarmed legislative offices around the state Thursday, executing search warrants in a coordinated series of raids that appeared to target the longstanding relationship between the oil-field service company Veco and leading lawmakers.
Above Anchorage’s 4th Avenue, FBI agents spent most of the afternoon behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of the fifth-floor offices of Senate President Ben Stevens and Senate Rules Committee Chairman John Cowdery, both Anchorage Republicans. Through slits in the blinds, one agent in Stevens’ office, wearing rubber gloves, could be seen packing away evidence in a container.
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In disclosures he was required to file as a legislator, Stevens said he was paid $243,000 over the last five years as a “consultant” to Veco. Whenever he was asked to describe what he did for the money, Stevens refused to answer. The company also refused to say.