Alaska senator (Stevens) used company as ‘personal handyman,' prosecutor charges

[DogPoundPup]

Source: News Observer / McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Stevens used one of Alaska's biggest employers as his "own personal handyman service" and never paid Veco Corp. for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of work done on his home, a federal prosecutor charged Thursday as she outlined the government's case for finding the Alaska Republican guilty of lying on financial disclosure forms.

"You'll learn that the defendant never paid Veco a dime for the work on the chalet. Not a penny," the Justice Department's lead prosecutor, Brenda Morris, told jurors in the opening minutes of Stevens' trial.

The jury will hear from many of the people who did the work on Stevens home in Girdwood, Alaska, Morris said, referring to the A-frame cabin as a "chalet," as the senator did.

"If the defendant needed an electrician, he contacted Veco. If the defendant needed a plumber, he contacted Veco," she said. "We reach for the Yellow Pages; he reached for Veco."

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/1573/story/1231884.html

[Blue_In_AK]

1. A pity that Sarah Palin

is stealing all of Uncle Ted's headlines. :cry:

[ContraBass Black]

2. Did Veco install a series of tubes?

[tanyev]

3. D'oh! Why didn't I think of that?

Our garage door is broken. I should just call a company that services oil fields and see if they can come fix it. Maybe they'll trim my shrubs, too.

[I am the truth]

4. innocent til proven guilty

i guess due process doesn't apply to republicans :shrug:

[tanyev]

5. Sure it does, in a court of law.

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