Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens Found Guilty of Ethics Violations
Monday, October 27th, 2008
WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska [Mr. Series of Tubes himself], the longest-serving Republican in the Senate’s history and a figure of enormous influence in his state, was found guilty on Monday of violating ethics laws for failing to report gifts and services that he was given by friends.
A federal jury of eight women and four men from the District of Columbia found that the 84-year-old Mr. Stevens, who has represented Alaska in the Senate for more than 40 years, knowingly failed to list on Senate disclosure forms the receipt of several gifts and tens of thousands of dollars worth of remodeling work on his home in Girdwood, Alaska.
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