Republican Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe

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Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe

By Paul Kane
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, June 7, 2007; Page A01
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his closest political confidants and financial backers.

Stevens, who is famous for bringing home federal earmarks for Alaska when he was Appropriations Committee chairman, was not previously known to be linked to the Justice Department's probe, which has uncovered evidence that more than $400,000 worth of bribes were given to state lawmakers in exchange for favorable energy legislation.

Investigators have used secret recording equipment, seized documents and cooperating witnesses to secure the indictments of four current and former state lawmakers, including the former state House speaker, shaking the core of Alaska's Republican Party.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602851.html?hpid=topnews

[lyonn]

1. The FBI has been busy, busy, busy keeping government

corruption to a minimum. It is soo disappointing to hear Ted may have been bribed. SARCASM

[elfin]

2. What records??

All lost due to server meltdown, wrong address, etc. etc.

[virgdem]

3. Those records will get lost in the tubes...

never to be heard from again.