Grand jury examines Stevens' ties to Veco [View All]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence last month about the expansion of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' Girdwood home in 2000 and other matters connecting Stevens to the oil services company Veco Inc.

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The existence of the Washington grand jury investigation is the strongest indication to date that Stevens himself has become a subject of the wide-ranging federal probe that surfaced with FBI raids on state legislative offices last August. Former State Sen. Ben Stevens, Ted Stevens' son, was among the legislators whose offices were searched. Ben Stevens has denied wrongdoing.

The FBI said at the time that it also had executed a search warrant in Girdwood, among other places, although the location of that search has never been disclosed.

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Read more: http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/9013136p-8922071c.html

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So things get hotter and hotter for Testy Tubular Ted and his arrogant heir Ben. Since Ted-For-Life and Dumb Young can no longer pump the pork and the foobird is coming home to roost, even Alaskan Repugnicans are getting sick of it.

Alaska Dems need to capitalize on this and get candidates that can beat Ted and Don now that they're vulnerable. When former Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, now Acting Chancellor of UAA, came back to Juneau for a funeral several weeks ago, folks were urging her to run against Stevens or Young, but she says she doesn't want to live in DC.

Neither Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich or former Gov. Tony Knowles seems to want to run for the Congressional seat, even though Mark would be a shoe-in. After all, even after his father's plane disappeared, Nick Begich beat Don Young for the seat. Young was elected in special election held 3 or 4 months after the plane carrying Hale Boggs and Begich was lost, and they had been declared dead.

Interesting, too, that it's been a DC grand jury, not an Alaskan one, that's been hearing evidence about the Stevens house remodel.

Now when does the Dumb Young Coconut Road grand jury start?