Re: Oh I am sorry Senator Stevens to bother you...but the FBI and IRS agents have broken into your house....

"All I can say is that agents from the FBI and IRS are currently
conducting a search at that residence," Dave Heller, assistant special
agent in charge of the FBI's Anchorage office, said Monday.

Neighbors said agents showed up between 11 a.m. and noon and that a
commercial locksmith was called to open the front door. Some two dozen
agents were still there at 9:30 p.m.

Stevens, 83, has long been the most powerful political figure in
Alaska and a major force in Congress. A swarm of federal agents
serving a search warrant at his home is unprecedented in Alaska
politics and is part of what appears to be a widening corruption
investigation that first burst into view last August. That's when
agents raided the offices of state legislators and oil field services
company Veco, among others [...]

The agents were obviously cataloging the house and its fixtures, from
light switches and electrical outlets to a big stainless steel
barbecue grill on a second-floor deck that neighbors said was hoisted
there with a crane. At one point, agents climbed on the pitched metal
roof to take pictures of heat tape in the gutters.

One agent carried a full large black garbage bag out of the house and
put it in the white truck.

A half-dozen federal vehicles, including a white panel truck with a
satellite dish on the roof, were parked in front of the house most of
the day. At least 10 more federal vehicles were parked at the ski
resort's day lodge a couple of blocks away.



On Jul 31, 4:44 pm, Slick <goodtimes33...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Senator Ted "The-Internet-is-a-series-of-tubes" Stevens (R. Alaska)
has long been known as perhaps the dimmest bulb in the Senate
chandelier. Now it turns out that he may be corrupt, too.

Stevens' house was just searched by the FBI and Internal Revenue
Service, apparently as part of an bribery investigation. Stevens
apparently has been too cozy with Bill Allen, founder of VECO Corp.,
an Alaska oil and engineering company that's gotten tens of millions
of dollars from the federal government. Allen has already been
convicted of bribing state politicians in Alaska, and the new probe
focuses on VECO's renovating Stevens' home, according to the
Associated Press. There are other ties as well, such as VECO paying
nearly $250,000 to Stevens' son, and Allen and Stevens co-owning a
racehorse.

What does this have to do with networking or the Internet? For now,
not much, but in the long run, possibly plenty. The powerful Stevens
has long been an opponent of network neutrality. If he's indicted for
political corruption, even the too-forgiving voters of Alaska may kick
him out of office. And that means net neutrality may be one step
closer to reality.


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