Subpoena may signal a wider corruption (Fed investigation of Ted Stevens' son Ben)

[harpboy_ak]

Subpoena may signal a wider corruption

GRAND JURY: Head of seine group says records touch Ben Stevens, marketing board.

By RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/8482093p-8375673c.html

Published: December 10, 2006
Last Modified: December 10, 2006 at 03:02 AM

The director of a Juneau-based salmon fishing group said last week he has been ordered by a federal grand jury investigating Alaska corruption to turn over lobbying and consulting records involving state Senate President Ben Stevens and former congressional aide Trevor McCabe, an Anchorage lawyer.

The grand jury subpoena, issued last month, also seeks records on the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board, a nonprofit federal-grant distribution corporation set up by Ben Stevens' father, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

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Both the marketing board's creation and the seiner organization lobbying directly involve earmarks inserted into federal legislation by Ted Stevens. There is no indication that agents are investigating Ted Stevens, the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. Stevens himself has declined to comment on the investigation.

Ben Stevens was the board's initial chairman when it was created in 2003 until he resigned April 19, and McCabe, Ted Stevens' former legislative director, has served on its board of directors also since its creation. The board has distributed millions of dollars of federal funds to fishery companies, including several that paid consulting fees to Ben Stevens. Stevens was recently fined $300 by the Alaska Public Offices Commission for failing to disclose his membership on the commission for two years.

(Again snipped for brevity --- the full story is must reading)

[Bigmack]

1. Hey, Ted...

don't be sad. You can visit your boy on Visitor's Day. And I hear those Fed Minimum Security prisons aren't so bad.

Maybe, when the Dems start really investigating, you and your boy might end up sharing a dorm room somewhere like the Lompoc, CA. Federal Correction Center. Much warmer than those cold Alaska nights.

You crooked old fuck!

[Howardx]

4. it will all lead back to ted

im sure his son is just helping out with the family business

[aquart]

2. oH, ABOUT TIME.

[Initech]

3. So was this problem caused by a series of tubes?

[Eugene]

5. All roads lead to Ted Stevens.

The feds may not be investigating him, but behind
every dirty deal mentioned lies a Ted Stevens earmark.
Interesting.

[Lilith Velkor]

6. All tubes lead to Ted Stevens.

One might say he is a tube. :/