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Uneven Stevens

Posted on July 29, 2008

By Kate Sheppard Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens -- the longest-serving Republican in the Senate and a longtime thorn in the side of enviros -- was indicted today. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., charged the 84-year-old senator with seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure forms between 1999 to 2006 in order to conceal gifts and in-kind services from the oil-field engineering firm VECO Corp. and its CEO, Bill Allen. The indictment charges that Allen and other VECO employees were soliciting Stevens for multiple official actions ... knowing that Stevens coul...

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