FBI taped senator's phone calls in Alaska probe

FBI taped senator's phone calls in Alaska probe

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI has taped conversations between Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and an oil company executive who has pleaded guilty to bribery, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

The calls were between Stevens, who is up for re-election in 2008, and Bill Allen, then CEO of oilfield services firm VECO Corp., the source said Thursday.

In May, Allen and another VECO executive pleaded guilty to paying more than $400,000 in bribes to Alaska public officials.

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Federal agents searched Stevens' home outside Anchorage in July in connection with a wide-ranging Alaska corruption probe, which also has snared a state lobbyist and led to bribery and conspiracy charges against three current and former state legislators.

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In May, the Anchorage Daily News reported that federal agents were asking contractors who carried out an extensive renovation of Stevens' home to turn over their records from the job. One contractor told the newspaper that he was asked to appear before a grand jury in December.

FBI agents also raided the office of Stevens' son, then-state Senate President Ben Stevens, in September 2006. The younger Stevens has not been charged in connection with the probe.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/21/fbi.stevens/index.html

Doesn't realize that a telephone is a dump-truck, not a series of tubes...

On the other hand, it's slimy old pricks like this that make me feel better about being a Floridian and a Georgia voter. Nice to know the rest of the country can be just as screwed up as my corner of it. I guess.

because there was some comment made on our nightly news questioning whether the tapes could be used because of a Supreme Court decision regarding wiretaps a while ago. It was just sort of a "tossed-off" comment and I'm waiting for it to be posted online to see exactly what it was.

Maybe because the tapes had to do with the state corruption trials that are going on? :shrug: I really don't know, but I'll post something here as soon as the story is up.

Let's Have a "SERIES OF TUBES" Party on DU = Ted Stevens VIDEOS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1863092

Will Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Resign This Week? He finally has his road to nowhere.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1816831

Most recent video about the secret taping here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Recent TPM - FBI Listened in on Ted Stevens Phone Calls
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/ted_stevens/

TPM must have an AP RSS feed. They were right on this one.

Instead, he will be given the white gloves treatment, and they will all wait to cover this very much..

When a D-scandal happens, they trample each other to drive the bus..but when a repube screws up, they head for the bench seat at the back of the bus... unless it's about sex...(excluding diaper sex )

Right after this investigation blew into the open, Steven's kid all of a sudden vanished to work on some oil rig...conveniently inconvenietly available.

Well Senator Tooobs slowly twists in the wind...yet another corrupt Repugnican still able to suck off our tax dollars, but it appears the FBI has got him nailed. Teddy should cash it in...but his ego won't let it happen.