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Published 10/21/2008 by emilyes at CNN Political Ticker
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A recorded phone call from one of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' longtime friends opened the prosecution's closing arguments Tuesday in the lawmaker's corruption trial.
"Ted gets hysterical when he has to spend his own money," Bob Persons told a mutual friend in the recording, which was played for jurors by Joe Bottini, the [...]
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