Alaska Lawmakers Coming Under Scrutiny

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A government watchdog group filed a complaint Wednesday with the U.S. Senate ethic committee over a land deal involving Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Another Alaska Republican in Congress, Rep. Don Young, is under criminal investigation, a federal law enforcement official said.

Part of the probe involves Young's campaign finance practices, an element that would be investigated in Washington, D.C., the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

The third member of Alaska's congressional delegation, Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, has acknowledged he has been told by authorities to preserve records of a house remodeling project involving an Anchorage-based oil field service company, VECO Corp.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Alaska-Probe.html

Two US lawmakers face corruption probe
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Two_US_lawmakers_face_corruption_pr_07252007.html

[Toots]

1. Sounds like Alaska needs to do some house cleaning...

Every single one of their Representatives in Congress is implicated in scandal. Several of their State legislators have been implicated as well and in fact some have already been convicted and are trying to mitigate their sentencing by telling all they know. Sounds good to me...

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2. TPM has a long list

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/ted_stevens/

[annabanana]

3. Couldn't happen to a more deserving crew. . . . n/t

[northofdenali]

4. Adding to the Repuke corruption in our state,

meet US Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, from today's Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/9164940p-9081424c.html

A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, charging that her 2006 purchase of an exclusive Kenai riverfront lot was a “sweetheart deal” from Anchorage businessman Bob Penney.

The complaint, brought by Ken Boehm, chairman of the conservative-leaning National Law and Policy Center of Falls Church, Va., also charged that Murkowski filed false information about the land deal on her annual financial disclosure and obtained special treatment on a mortgage from the Ketchikan bank where her sister serves as a director.

Murkowski spokesman Kevin Sweeney said the senator would have no comment Wednesday. Penney said from his summer home on the Kenai River outside Soldotna that he wouldn’t comment, either.

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The mortgage for the property is yet another issue, Boehm said. Murkowski and Martell took out a loan for 80 percent of the purchase — $136,561 — from First Bank in Ketchikan. The Murkowski family has long been associated with that bank. Lisa once sat on the board, and her sister, Eileen Van Whye, is a shareholder and director.

Bold lettering mine, and much, much more at the link. The National Law & Policy Center is pretty conservative, and Chairman Ken Boehm is an ex-aide to a Republican congressman. Their website is www.nlpc.org

CAN'T WAIT TILL WE DUMP EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM!!! Now, I'm off to a job interview in a MUCH better mood!