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Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was indicted today for accepting more than $250,000 in undisclosed renovations and repairs for his home in Girwood, Alaska, according to Stevens' indictment.
Stevens' friend William Allen, the head of VECO company, was providing most of the labor and some supplies for the projects, but never charged Stevens for the work, according to the indictment today.
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "we are really pleased with all you have done. hope to see you and the chalet soon. best teds," - Ted Stevens, in a note written in Sept. '00 to his friend William Allen, whose company provided more than $250,000 worth of free, undisclosed renovations to the Stevens home in Girwood, AK. ...
Scandal-Plagued Ted Stevens Endorses Palin For VP, Says He’s ‘Known And Worked’ With Her ‘For Over A Decade’
Think Progress —
... She just wants him to give “a fuller accounting” of his relationship with VECO Corp., the oil services company that gave him unreported gifts.
Palin also has ties to VECO. When she ran for lieutenant governor in 2002, “she gathered $5,000 — or about 10 percent of her campaign fund — from Veco officials or their wives,” including $500 from CEO Bill Allen. Allen gave Stevens expensive gifts over the years, including “a new Viking gas grill and a new tool shed full of tools.”
Clean Bill of Health?
Talking Points Memo —
... the interests of a major political contributor in his state, Stevens accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods and services from that contributor. ...
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