Re: U.S. Sen. Stevens' Home Searched by FBI
- From: Capitalist Pig <cochon-capitaliste@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:46:58 -0700
On 31 juil, 18:36, sordo @mini-true.org wrote:
U.S. Sen. Stevens' Home Searched by FBI
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
July 31, 2007, 11:25 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- Federal agents searching the Alaska home of Republican
Sen. Ted Stevens appeared particularly interested in cases of wine
stored in the senator's house, an attorney briefed on the raid said.
Investigators photographed the cases and the individual bottles Monday
along with other items from Stevens' home as part of a public corruption
investigation that stretches from Alaska to Washington.
Stevens, 83, is under a federal investigation for his relationship with
Bill Allen, an oil field services contractor who was convicted this year
of bribing state lawmakers. Stevens was aware for some time that
investigators wanted to search the house, the attorney said Tuesday,
speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to
discuss the case.
Allen oversaw a 2000 renovation project that more than doubled the size
of Stevens' home in the ski resort community of Girdwood. Allen is the
founder of VECO Corp., an Alaska-based oil field services and
engineering company that has reaped tens of millions of dollars in
federal contracts.
Contractors said they submitted bills to Allen, then received checks
from Stevens. The senator has said he paid for all the improvements
himself.
Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service started their search at
the senator's home Monday afternoon, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant
special agent. He said he could not comment on the nature of the
investigation.
About 15 agents took photos and video of various angles of the
structure, climbing onto the roof at one point, and eventually entered.
They later carried out a garbage bag full of unidentifiable materials
and loaded it into an unmarked white van. The curtains were drawn during
most of the search.
A law enforcement official familiar with the case confirmed the raid on
Stevens' home was focused on records related to the ongoing VECO
investigation. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter
publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Investigators did not raid Stevens' home in Washington, where he spends
most of his time.
An e-mail statement issued by Stevens through his Washington, D.C.,
spokesman said federal agents had alerted his attorneys that they wanted
to search his home.
Stevens, who has been in office since 1968 and is the longest-serving
Republican in Senate history, said the interests of justice would be
best served if he commented after the investigation.
"I continue to believe this investigation should proceed to its
conclusion without any appearance that I have attempted to influence its
outcome," Stevens said. "The legal process should be allowed to proceed
so that all the facts can be established and the truth determined."
Located 40 miles south of Anchorage, Girdwood is nestled in a valley
next to Mount Alyeska and has evolved from a gold mining town into
Alaska's only year-round resort community.
The Justice Department's probe into Allen's relationships has led to
charges against state lawmakers and contractors. Last year, FBI raids on
the offices of several Alaska lawmakers included Stevens' son, former
Alaska Senate President Ben Stevens.
Neither the U.S. senator nor his son has been charged.
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Associated Press writer Dan Joling in Anchorage, Alaska, and James
Halpin in Girdwood, Alaska, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
How come they don't look into the $ BILLIONS in military contracts
that Sen Feinstein's steered to husband Richard Blum's companies while
Feinstein was a member of the Senate appropriations committee?
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