Senator Ted Stevens: Indicted
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Author: NBC News and News Service
Source: www.msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25916299/
Justice Department indicts Sen. Ted Stevens Prosecutors say he received $250K in gifts and services from VECO Corp.  Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, 82, talks to the news media after a meeting of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Washington, D.C., December 20, 2005. Stevens has been indicted by the Justice Department on seven counts of making false statements to federal investigators. Stevens is up for re-election this year.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home. Stevens, the first sitting U.S. senator to face federal indictment since 1993, has been dogged by a federal investigation into his home renovation project and his dealings with wealthy oil contractors. The investigation has upended Alaska state politics and cast scrutiny on Stevens — who is running for re-election this year — and on his congressional colleague, Rep. Don Young of Alaska, who is also under investigation. | 
