Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) indicted on seven felony counts
By SilentPatriot Monday Jul 28, 2008 1:30pm
or: Ted Stevens: So Dirty Even The Bush Administration Had To Indict Him. (h/t AdamS)
The Justice Department has just handed down a grand jury indictment against Republican Senator Ted Stevens (.pdf) consisting of seven felony counts of making false statements. Basically Stevens is being charged for failing to disclose over $250,000 in gifts he received from 1999-2006, as well as improperly favoring fishing legislation that would benefit his son. For more on the specifics, PBS NOW covered the story extensively in November of last year.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber's most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington for failing to disclose more than $250,000 worth of gifts that he received from businessmen who were seeking his help on federal issues and projects.
The seven-count indictment charges Stevens with making false statements by failing to disclose things of value he received from the Veco Corp., an Alaska-based oil services compmany, and from its CEO, Bill Allen, over an eight-year period.
In real world terms, this has huge ramifications for the Republican Party. Stevens is up for tough reelection this year and is actually currently polling behind challenger and Anchorage mayor Mark Begich. Today's news may very well put us one seat closer to that coveted super-majority.
Kos has more on where the Alaska Republican party now finds itself.
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Rot in hell d-bag.
"Will you plead guilty?"
"No! No, I will not!"
I'll bet you can find this kind of crap with EVERY public servant.
Same old, same old.
It's the fault of all those damn tubes and wires!
How close is he to McCain?
Dear GOP,
Welcome to permanent minority status.
Population, you.
Sincerely,
America
I'm of two minds regarding this... Stevens has been a prick for a long time and deserves to be judged for his illegal actions - whatever they may be.
However, I also hate the spinelessness of most members of the congress - the fact that they wait until the guy's a few years from being dead before calling him out on these things.
We're seeing the same crap with how the Bush admin is being handled (or not being handled as it may be).
Great that they got something on this guy... would have been nice if they handled things a little bit sooner, however.
What?! That's IMPOSSIBLE! He is a Traditional Christian Family Values man and would NEVER commit treason or crimes against the American people! He would NEVER blowjob strangers in airport restrooms! Never never never! He's a Christian, for god's sake!
Isn't this the dude who thought that the internet(s) was just a series of tubes all over the place...like it was some kind of huge drive-up window at a bank?
Looks like he bought himself a bridge to nowhere.
Ahhhh, for shaaaaaaaaame. The InterTubes won't be the same without him...
10 bucks says that Fox News' coverage of this will "accidentally" label him a democrat...
The moral high ground, the law and order party, family values, from the great white north!!
Maybe he will meet a nice fella and become a gay marriage activist!
Couldn't happen to a more contempuos, dirty, unethical, hypocritical, sleazy, pandering dirtbag.
Ted, say hi to bubba the buttripper, you're new rehabilitator.
lucid fiction @ 3:
you may be correct.....you may not.....but he got caught
your innocent until proven guilty....that law thing
He ALWAYS seemed like such a dick.
I say good riddance asshole. Enjoy your prison stay.
[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of gifts to my office. And again, the Senatorship is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your bribe in, it gets in line and it's reporting is going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of money, enormous amounts of money[...]
He should thank his lucky stars he was indicted now and not after Jan '09. Georgie will take care of him, especially now that the ball is rollin on ANWR. This dick threatened to leave the senate before if they didn't give him his way on his 'Bridge to Nowhere'.
Now you can just leave you ethicless curmudgeon.
Tip of the proverbial iceberg, I hope. Watch Chimpy pardon him. Has anyone seen W yet ?
Do we honestly think he is going to prison? Delay is still walking around, unlike Cunningham, who deserved every year he got. So much for justice. The first thing his lawyer is going to say, "Look at his age. Have some pity!"
My prediction is Bush will pardon him. Pre-emptively if necessary.
Screwtape the Epistemologist @ 20:
I think that would be waaaay too early for Chimpy McChaney to start uplling the pardon card. doing that would put his ass too close to the fire while these non-impeachment hearings are going on. If he pardons an oil-bribe taker, he puts himself into the middle of the scandal and the hearings would start to coalesce on him. I don't think he will. Now, waiting for him to be convicted and commuting his sentence, that is another thing altogether.
Poor Teddy. Maybe he can bunk with "the Duke" in the new GOP wing of your local Federal Prison.
Another gain for the Dems this Nov. LOL LOL
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA...
The Intertubes will not treat this nicely.
The charges will complicate his re-election campaign
And wouldn't this make him ineligible?
If not, it damned well should, reguardless of what the voters decide.
He's on a bridge to somehwere...somewhere not so nice
Just a note...a grand jury hands an indictment **up**
a judge usually hands a sentence **down**
Bush is going to pardon everyone, including himself.
buh-bye to dirt-bag Ted Stevens - if there's such a thing as justice he'll die in prison.
Fishing legislation? Really?
Looks like Ted done went and built hisself a bridge to prison...
I got no sympathy for this asshole......JD
You know somebody's going to bring up that Democrat, what's his tush, who refrigerated his money next to the Hagen Daas and Soylent Green.
"ANWR Ted Stevens indicted on several counts of corruption! According to x, Stevens accepted bribes from oil company lobbyists to push their drilling agenda. But he's not the only Republican to take checks from big oil (show McCain) To learn more about the GOP, big oil, and real energy security... visit....www."
P.D. @ 21:
The statistic I heard today is that 95% of the time people lose in federal court.
Gotta run ads of McCain hanging around oil rigs, addressing oil lobbyists, and flipping his position after taking 1 million dollars. This was made for prime time.
Ted(a bridge too far from federal prison)indicted? A Republican?? No wonder the earth shook on the West Coast,shortly thereafter!
Congress won't matter in a few months anyway. As soon as the next "terrorist" attack occurs, the administration will immediately suspend all elections, declare martial law, and dissolve congress until the "threat" is eliminated.
Liberal Bloggers will be dragged into concentration camps, immigrants and minorities will be slaughtered, the nation will face the most bloody civil war the world has ever seen. Then in the year 2077 it will all end in a nuclear holocaust.
Will anyone care then who Ted Stevens was? Will anyone even be around to care?
It is time for Obama to hit back on gas prices.
Michael W. @ 12:
Or at the very least offer him a cushy commentator's gig.
Right frickin' on!!!! It's about time this old piece of crap got what's coming to him. Nobody cares who Ted Stevens is, nevermind was... what an old crook and liar. Glad he may get his just desserts.
Someone help me. Exactly what number is considered a "super majority"? Thanks
another one bites the dust!
26 Graham Says:
Just a note…a grand jury hands an indictment **up**
a judge usually hands a sentence **down**
In a subservient kowtow to the alleged integrity and authority of the bench. Ha!
31 ysbaddaden Says: You know somebody’s going to bring up that Democrat, what’s his tush, who refrigerated his money next to the Hagen Daas and Soylent Green.
LOL - That would be William J. Jefferson (D-Louisiana)
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=E01&cycle=2008&rec...
Apparently, McCain is #1 for Gas and Oil contributions.
Bye-Bye...
doggiebobo @ 40:
The number of senators (60) to be able to vote to end the filibusters of the opposition
Michael W. @ 12:
That's if FNC decides the story is news-worthy.
As we've said before: just go down the list of GOPpers in Congress and there's a good likelihood that there will be real dirt on them. How about the birds who have decided not to run again. They would the ones to start with, so their seats will be filled by Non-GOPpers.
Time to update the GOP criminal list. And the Bush pardon list...if we start making this list for him it may be a little more embarrassing for Bush, because I'm sure he's very sensitive.
This could not happen to a more deserving person.
Contact the press and ask them to explore McCain's relationship to big oil. The timing is absolutely right for the story. McCain has been doing pressers at oil rigs. Stevens has been indicted. The back story of McCain's campaign money is absolutely easy to cover... all you need is an internet connection to verify it... and bloggers have done most of the work.
This is a story we should push for in the MSM.
You realize that this could well be a red herring to distract from "other issues." (McCain, Bush impeachment hearings, etc., etc.) Now the "Justice Department’s Office of Public Integrity" can proclaim that they are "tough on crime" -- even thought this has been ongoing since 1999. He's a burnt offering...
Coveted super-majority? Democrats don't vote in lock-step. Super-majority matters not. Still, while I'm shocked that the Bush administration would bring indictments here, I'm glad to see them.
Look at the brighter side, Ted, it will give you an opportunity to refine your computer skills at government expense. Also, you'll be able to upgrade some of those tubes with the latest electronics. It's a win win situation.
spotmarkedx @ 45:
Again, thanks. That is number to override any attempts of a filibuster and needed to
override a veto, as I suspected. Wish I could say that after Obama wins, the Dems
will have such a majority(in Senate) and likewise in U.S. House, but unfortunately
in a "World of Reality", it will not occur, so guess we'll have to be satisfied/happy with
maybe 55 to 58 Democrat Senators and one(Lamont) "Independent"..
The story isn't that surprising. The thing that caught my mind's eye was that I NEVER heard he was being tried by a grand jury. Where the fuck was the MSM on that? Why weren't we told he was under investigation? Great one, 4th branch of government. Thanks for the coverage. Still haven't seen shit about his indictment on the news.
Always remember, and indictment is not a conviction. This grand old repig will most likely walk off scott free. Still love to see his ass in an orange jumper with a 9 digit number on his chest.
$250,000? For KBR, that's chump change.
JustSickOfIt @ 54:
Yeah, me also, but more pleasant to the eye for viewing would be to see ROVE in that
orange jump suit.
All of the charges have to do with making false statements.
So how come nobody in the Executive Branch ever gets nailed for making false statements?
bert @ 17:
Nah. He's just another Republican corrupto. He may spend awhile at a country club somewhere, but men of power never actually go to prison. I mean, it's not as if he did something as heinous as taking a recreational hit of marijuana or stealing a pair of shoes, is it? We can dream of this corrupto sharing a cell with Bubba the Buttripper, but that's all it is - a daydream. Stevens will be smiling all the way to the tennis court.
Mark N. @ 57:
Lying is different than "false statement"...IF w/Executive Branch, the former is
usual and customary and expected, so no prosecution.
Talk to ya later Ted.
Dr. Know @ 42:
That's his name! Wow! And I had to go through a list of names before I found Jefferson...
Ney... no
Delay... no
Cunningham... no
Stevens... no
Libby... no
Hastert... no
Foley... no
Weldon... no
Frist... no
Lott... no
Fossella... no
McCain... not this time
Ahh, yes... Jefferson
Who is prosecuting? The (poorly named) Justice Department? But just yesterday we saw that the Justice Department eliminated all but republican-oriented attorney's who would support the President, who is a Republican.
Bah.... He's a Republican, laws don't apply to him.
moniker @ 55:
I know! You'd have to add a lot more zeros to that number for me to risk my career, reputation, sell my soul. And that wasn't a lump sum payment either, it was over a number of years. Of course, that is the amount they can prove. I'm sure it is more, but still . . .
They should stick this stinking CON in the same shit hole that the CON church shooter is going to be in. The 2 SOBs can bitch about Gays and Liberals all day long.
Just another person for Bush to pardon.
If this goes through... if... then Stevens is ineligible for the congressional pension (snicker!).
I hope this is the beginning of a trend.
Paul @ 68:
My thoughts exactly, and let's not limit it to the senate. But it's a long way from an indictment to prison. I'm not holding my breath.
Another bull shit story. Nothing will happen to him. I'm not buying this garbage. There is no justice on this planet of the idiots.
Even if he gets only a year or less of prison, it will probably kill him.If so ,not so bad!
Mark N. @ 57:
Because the key members of the Executive branch never concede to testify under oath
Looks like his career is going down the TUBES.
The man who blew his gasket preventing the oil barons at his hearings from being sworn in. Too bad. Their man had power and could make things happen for them. Oh well, there's plenty more where he came from inside the government.
Even if he is found guilty, he will never see a jail cell, just like Ken Lay. The NWO take care of their own elite. They have a top secret underground system of interconnected cities that make it just so unbelievably easy.
I'm sure they can find another demented, incompetent crook in Alaska. If not, have one shipped from Texas.
It's about time.
Now let's all hope he doesn't croak from a stroke or something.
If we don't win this case, we can't collect the ill gotten gains from his spoiled heirs.
a typical "CAREER POLITICIAN". The longer and Higher the climb......the harder and painful they fall.
Let this be a lesson for Feinstein; Reid; Pelosi; Conyer.
Their days are numbered. It is clear that they have something to hide .... by not IMPEACHING the BUSH/CHENEY criminals. There are only so much to a deck of cards. The jokers are not even going to cut it because they can not bluff their way out of the WEB they weaved themselves into.
The net is tied and there is only one way to untangle themselves out. ........BY committing to a hearing of BUSH/CHENEY and allowing the TRUTH to take its course.
Political Blackmail is their hand-cuff. They need to cut loose or fall hard and fast with the criminals.
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Any of you who know history will tell you the elite (Nazi) are going to be taking all of you down, especially those with money, they simply do not need any Senators or Congress anymore, So be forwarned Roman history under emperor Nero and the rest killed of the wealthy to steal thier fortunes. And you thought it was just the poor and unemployed who were going to takeing away. YOU ARE SO WRONG IF YOU THINK THAT.
Come on, let's see Steven's cry like a bitch like that bastard Duke.
At 'The VIEW', Joy Behar interviewed Pelosi. She (Pelosi) reminded Behar, that she holds the 3rd most powerful position in the nation as Speaker of the House. I don't why she had to remind us this; as if WE don't already know this. She must think Americans are so dumb.
She (Pelosi) further implied that BUSH has not committed a CRIME. So she is not ONLY the Speaker of the House.......she is also the judge, the jury, and the one that decides the verdict. Right? NOT...........
That was an idiotic political blurb......what a mistake......what audacity.....
Her duty first and foremost is to make certain that our government is doing its job WITHIN the LAW. Creating LAWS out of the top of their head without the people's consent is NOT a LAW. Those signing statements out of an abuse of POWER is in itself CRIMINAL. When laws that are passed and designed to deceive the people for politicians to gain political power IS in itself criminal by public standards. Therefore those laws created out of criminal intent ARE NULL and CAN BE repeal.
Career politicians like Stevens is no different from those that sit in the House of Congress that make these crimes to occur. The legislative branch has the capacity to end these corruption but they are not doing this. They want to leave this window of opportunity for them to loot the Federal Treasury and pass laws that would immunize them from wrong doing by passing LAWS to meet those objectives.
We can't just focus on STEVENS.......WE MUST EXAMINE the whole house....Pelosi included.
CMINCA @ 33:
He's old and he's rich. Which means he can tie the case up in legal manoeuvrings until he dies of old age and never do any time.
I'll bet there's cash stuffed in those tubes!
Senators helping oil companies and getting help in return. I don't think anyone is shocked. Sadly. When will this ever change?
this is so he can be pardoned by bush at year's end.
Book em Danno!
Wow, best present ever, and it's not even my birthday!
Time to dance the dance of joy!
he's gonna have a series of enormous tubes streaming into backside. that's not a truck Senator!
Too bad IF he is arrested he will only spend a year or so in jail.
He'll get away with it. He'll be found not guilty...if he is convicted, Bush will probably pardon him. Shit like this no longer surprises me. Very few of those who occupy our crooked halls of government are actually 'honest'(whatever that means anymore), most nothing but con-men, shysters and perverted leches who have never done an honest days work in their lives.
He was probably about to do something that might expose the Bush crime family, and had to be moved out of the way.
Did you guys see that AP article about him? It made it seem like he was such a nice guy who's been picked on by everyone--even McCain!
one more Repugnant down the loophole.
Is he a doddering old republican who doesn't understand many things? Yes, but who did he piss off in his own ruling class to have his number come up as a sacrificial lamb. That's what makes repub's so disgusting. They crap where they eat and then eat their own. The mafia has better ethics!
Uh-oh. Don't upset the Incredible Hulk...HULK SMASH!
Congress has low approval ratings of course totally because of the democrats People like Stevens Vitter Foley Ney Craig have nothing to do with that poor showing (snark,snark)
NOooooooooooo!
I swear. this stuff writes it's self. You just can't make this stuff up.
Well, you can. But you'd be ridiculed for doing it by the right wing Nazis.
I hope he spills his guts trying to save his ass.
Not that it matters.
I don't think this investigation came from the top. Alaska Republicans have been getting convicted left and right in their dealings with VECO for the last couple of years. Bill Allen at VECO turned on them all, and I think that the Federal DA, was just doing his job correctly.
He started with the small fish, Alaska's State Senators, and moved his way up to the Stevens', Ted's son, Ben, is implicated as well.
The system works sometimes. It just takes too long.
Now, on to Alaska's Rep. Don Young.
Then maybe Gov. Palin will get into some trouble for her abuse of power.
woot.
Jon Stewart Knew Ted Stevens Was Up To No Good
Looks like his Political Career is going down the TUBES how Ironic.
I gotta admit, this just made my day! I mean we're talkin
WOOOoooooooooo WHOOOOooooooooooo!
But...he didn't lie about a blow job!
Hey you prosecutors! Get off of my lawm!
Ted Stevens
Let this Bastard jump off the bridge to NO WHERE
Better watch out Mr. D.A! Thats a mighty big fish you got on that line. Better get em' into the net before the Bush crime syndicate gets a chance to cut him loose.
lucid fiction @ 3:
Typical and predictable. A republican gets busted (again) but its "all of them" who are dirty. Its either that or its a lie from the "liberal media". They just can't process that the republican party in washington is corrupt, every last one of them.
doggiebobo @ 56:
Seeing Rove is never pleasant to the eye. Every time I see the traitorous scumbag, I have to swallow the vomit that has crept up into my mouth. Rove makes Stevens look like a 5 year old stealing bubble gum from the candy store. As much as I am against capitol punishment, I believe an exception should be made in his case.
Maybe Ted Stevens and Don Siegelman can share a prison cell. My advice to both; don't drop the soap.
If you drop the soap...don't pick it up.
Oh I bet he wishes he could crawl into one of those Internet tubes now.
orcas @ 110:
Ted is is trouble because he is a corrupt politician (you know, a republican). Don Siegelman is an innocent man railroaded by Karl Rove for political reasons. But you knew that didn't you?
NPR's morning addition coverage of Stevens bordered on the nauseating. They made him appear like the long-suffering martyr who is being persecuted for no reason at all, implying that he's done nothing at all wrong: A tireless servant of the state of Alaska who has dedicated his life to service, somebody who could always bring home the cash money, a veritable saint and holy man.
The spin machine BS is going to be heavy and deep on this one.
Hey you prosecutors! Get off of my lawm!
Ted Stevens
Heh.
I must say that I felt a rather unseemly surge of glee when I heard this news. Why? Because (a) it couldn't have happened to a nicer right wing nut, and (b) I knew Jon Stewart would have a field day with it.
And he did. :-)
A cantankerous old man will make a playful sex toy for some lucky inmate.
Quoting McCain: "But I want to assure you I will get Osama bin Laden as president of the United States and I will bring him to justice no matter what it takes.” Really a finely constructed sentence..if you want to flip-flop or have an out when you fail. Why not say "as president I will get bin Laden....": simple, declarative and the right modifiers. As spoken, we can look forward to a President bin Laden. Words matter.
At the very end of a super corrupt career of
self interest trumping ‘the peoples interest”,
this self rightous man gets caught and exposed is
for what he really is, “a snake”
I have a suggestion for a way out:
“JUMP OFF THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE”
Sure would save the tax payers a lot of money!.
It's about time that Stevens pay for his crimes. I even see he's been officially added to
RepublicanCorruption.com
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