Ted Stevens Indicted

By Eric on July 29, 2008

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, has been indicted:

Government sources tell CBS News Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven charges related to a corruption probe.

A federal grand jury in Washington has handed up the indictment against Stevens — which the Justice Department is set to announce very shortly.

Stevens faces seven counts of false statements involving VECO, the oil services company in Alaska, and the renovations done on his home.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. More details as the story develops. Also, now wouldn’t be a terrible time to send some love over to Mark Begich.

Update: Teh Funny, courtesy of the fine folks over at CBS:

Update 2: It’s like Christmas in July:

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber’s most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington for failing to disclose more than $250,000 worth of gifts that he received from businessmen who were seeking his help on federal issues and projects.

The seven-count indictment charges Stevens with making false statements by failing to disclose things of value he received from the Veco Corp., an Alaska-based oil services compmany, and from its CEO, Bill Allen, over an eight-year period.

The indictment charges that among the undeclared items were substantial improvements to Stevens’ home in Girdwood, Alaska; automobile exchanges in which he received new vehicles that were worth far more than the old ones he exchanged; and household goods, including a Viking gas grill.

Update 3: Here’s a thought. If the agents and prosecutors responsible for this indictment had been applying for their jobs when Alberto Gonzales was AG, would Monica Goodling have tossed out their applications?

Update 4: Teh Funny continues:

You’ve got ten prison cells going down a corridor.  And what happens to your own personal prison cell?  Just the other day, one of my staff members put me in a prison cell at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday.  I just got out yesterday.  Why?  Because I got tangled up with all these things going on in the prison commercially.

The problem is that they want to deliver vast numbers of Republican convicts into the prisons.  And again, prisons are not something you can just dump something in.  PRISONS ARE NOT BIG TRUCKS.  Really, they’re a series of tubes.

Now, if you don’t understand, you can fill these prison tubes with Republican felons, and if these tubes are filled, when you put more Republican convicts in, they get in line and they’re going to be delayed by anyone that puts into these tubes enormous amounts of Republican felons.  Enormous amounts of Republican felons.

(Look over here if you don’t get it. )

Update 5: CQ Politics upgrades the Alaska Senate race from leans Republican to leans Democratic as a result of the indictment. Meanwhile, all across the country, vulnerable incumbent Republicans who took money from Stevens are giving it back.

Tags: 2008, AK-Sen, Mark Begich, Ted Stevens

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