adn.com - 10/27/2008
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WASHINGTON - A jury has found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens guilty of all seven counts of lying on his financial disclosure forms. It is the highest-profile felony conviction in a sweeping four-year federal investigation into corruption in Alaska politics, and a rare conviction by a jury of a sitting ...
thehill.com - 10/27/2008
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thehill.com —
Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history
and patriarch of Alaska politics, was found guilty of
all seven felony charges for making false statements. The verdict could spell the end of a 40-year Senate career for a man who rose to ...
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Sen. Ted Stevens guilty of felony charges
redstate.com - 10/27/2008
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redstate.com —
Party Loyalty Has Its Limits We stand at
a perilous moment in American politics, with the real
possibility that the Democrats could get to 60 votes in the Senate. This is no time for litmus tests of party loyalty, for abandoning our own. But we ...
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RedState Endorses Mark Begich, Democrat For Senate, and ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 10/27/2008
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
(CNN) — Sarah Palin said Monday Sen. Ted
Stevens' guilty verdict "is a sad day for Alaska."
"This is a sad day for Alaska and a sad day for Senator Stevens and his family," she said on the tarmac at Richmond International Airport. "The verdict ...
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Stevens verdict: Palin reacts
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Alaska Senator Ted Stevens: Guilty
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
An Alaska jury found Senator Ted Stevens guilty on all counts for lying on his financial disclosure forms:
“Jurors found that Stevens willfully filed false financial disclosure forms that hid such gifts as the renovations that doubled his home in size. Those gifts, valued at as much as $250,000 over seven years, came mostly from his former friend Bill Allen, the star prosecution witness in Stevens’ trial and the former owner of Veco Corp. The oil-field services company was one of Alaska’s largest private ...
Down the Tubes
Hit & Run —
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R), builder of the Bridge to Nowhere, owner of at least one Incredible Hulk tie, has become the fifth sitting senator convicted of a crime. The first to be convicted of seven. ...
Ted Stevens' conviction the crowning blow in a bad year for GOP senators
Top of the Ticket —
... Now, with election day looming, the party caught still another break with the conviction this afternoon of the longest-serving Republican in the Senate -- Ted Stevens of Alaska -- on all seven counts of failing to report an array of gifts. ...
ThinkFast: October 20, 2008
Think Progress —
... .” “It’s not over yet!” Stevens said yesterday . “ You’ve got that right ,” said his wife, Catherine Stevens. Gov. Sarah Palin spent over $51,000 in taxpayer dollars to “remodel the governor’s Anchorage office suite and ...
Morning Links
The Agitator —
... Wouldn’t it be great if he could be incarcerated in some prison in Alaska that he won federal funding for, and consequently bears his name? Loves me some irony. ...
Senator Intertubes Vows to Fight On
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
... .” “It’s not over yet!” Stevens said yesterday. “You’ve got that right,” said his wife, Catherine Stevens. ...
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The Associated Press: Ted Stevens found guilty in corruption case
ap.google.com 10/27/2008 — 40 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven ...
Stevens guilty on 7 counts, won't quit Senate race - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — WASHINGTON Ted Stevens , a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and ...
Editors: Republican Conviction
article.nationalreview.com 10/29/2008 — The Republican party only has itself to blame for being in the unenviable position of depending upon the good name of Ted Stevens.
Ted Stevens found guilty in corruption case - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — WASHINGTON Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that threatened to end the 40-year career of Alaska's political patriarch in disgrace. The verdict, coming barely a week before Election Day , increased ...
Stevens Testifies Today
talkleft.com 10/17/2008 — Senator Ted Stevens took the stand today in his criminal trial. He testified that he pays his bills when he knows about them, that he intended to pay for his home renovations, and that if he neglected to pay it's only because he's a busy senator ...
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