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Joining them soon may be Senator Ted Stevens, Alaska's senior Republican, who was found guilty on Oct. 27 on seven felony counts related to $250,000 of unreported gifts from influential constituents. Stevens, whose political trademark was his immense success at bringing home the bacon--$3.4 billion in federal...
Consider also the case of veteran Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, found guilty on Monday of federal ethics violations for accepting unreported thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts, including a home renovation. Once the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the President pro tempore, Stevens had become over...
For his part, Stevens couldn’t look more defiant: He insisted after his conviciton he will continue his uphill battle for the Senate seat he has held since 1970, after he helped lead Alaska to statehood. This history, combined with his legendary ability to steer federal money his...
The tide of our politics may turn on Election Day—and, judging by the polls, most Americans would consider it a happy development. What becomes absolutely essential then, as these scandals have demonstrated, is to avoid at all costs slipping into the self-satisfied unreason of most avid...
In the meantime, don't expect Stevens to be waiting for permission from anyone to defend his name and his legacy. As his old friend Roderick put it, "Yeah, he'll keep on fighting. That's the only thing he knows to do."