Will Senator Stevens resign before or after the GOP convention? :rofl:
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Sen. Stevens Scored Big In Florida Condo Deal, Prosecutors Allege
Andrew Tilghman - August 15, 2008 -
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/sen_stevens_scored_big.phpSen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) flipped a Florida condo deal to turn $5,000 into about $100,000 back in 2001 when the housing boom was heating up, according to newly filed court documents.
Federal prosecutors are not charging the sitting senator with any additional crimes, but they are laying out the new allegations in an effort to show a pattern of lying on his Senate financial disclosure reports.
Prosecutors say the details of Stevens' deal amount to an interest-free loan that he should have publicly disclosed.
The Anchorage Daily News first reported the details on Stevens' deal this morning: .....
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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/494557.htmlProsecutors reveal more in Stevens case
FILINGS: Prosecutors allege senator used inside help to profit from Florida condo.
By RICHARD MAUER - August 15th, 2008 11:03 AM
Federal prosecutors offered a glimpse of previously unseen evidence against U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens in new court filings Thursday, including allegations that Stevens used insider help to turn a secret $5,000 investment in a Florida condo development into more than $100,000 in quick profits.
The government also dismissed assertions by Stevens that his conduct was shielded by the constitution as a member of Congress, citing nine examples of Stevens' "errands" and requests involving Veco that had nothing to do with protected lawmaking.
Among them: an intercepted telephone call in which Stevens discusses how his son Ben, then the state Senate President, planned to push a bill favored by the oil industry as a prelude to gas development.
The new filings go substantially further than the indictment handed up against Stevens last month charging him with seven counts of failing to disclose gifts ............
.......By 2005, Lily Stevens needed a new car, the government said in its filing Thursday. So Stevens returned to the original source: Allen.
"Allen offered to get Stevens' daughter a new car in exchange for the 1999 Land Rover, and Stevens agreed," the government said.
This time, the SUV would be a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. The deal was made between Stevens' daughter and a Veco employee "for the purpose of hiding Allen's involvement in the transaction." Allen wrote a personal check .......
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Deja DU: Will Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Resign This Week? He finally has his road to nowhere.
Sep-15-07 -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1816831