Feds Eye Stevens Home Remodeling Project

[Blue_In_AK]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

The FBI and a federal grand jury have been investigating an extensive remodeling project at U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' home in Girdwood that involved the top executive of Veco Corp. in the hiring of at least one of the key contractors.

Three contractors who worked on the project said in recent interviews with the Daily News that the FBI asked them to turn over their records from the job. One said he was called to testify about the project before a federal grand jury in Anchorage in December.

The remodeling work, which more than doubled the size of the house, occurred in the summer and fall of 2000. The four-bedroom home, about two blocks from the day lodge parking lot at the Alyeska ski resort, is Stevens' official residence in Alaska.

An old friend of Stevens in Girdwood, longtime Double Musky restaurant owner Bob Persons, has been questioned by the FBI about the project. He monitored the remodeling for Stevens and his wife while they were in Washington, D.C. "I will be testifying. That's all I can tell you," Persons said in a brief interview last week. "It is an ongoing investigation that I'm not supposed to talk to or see anybody about it."

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Read more: http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/8928969p-8829178c.html

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More fallout from VECO CEO Bill Allen's recent guilty plea.

[maddezmom]

1. good news

K&R

[Dr.Phool]

2. Did they install any of them there internet tubes?

Bye-bye, Ted.

[williesgirl]

3. k&r - get rid of this bastard once and for all

[roguevalley]

4. I hope he falls.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Bil Allen seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.

:rofl: I'm waiting for him to take down Murkowski and young Ben, as well, plus that slimebag Cowdery. Who knows who else? :evilgrin:

[laylah]

6. Is there a bridge included? n/t

[Toots]

7. Corrupt Bastards Alumni I imagine

Maybe father and son will share the same cell.

[xxqqqzme]

8. ra-row - who is the USA for that district?

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Nelson Cohen

An interesting article about Mr. Cohen here:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8816351p-8717151c.html

Maybe this is why Uncle Ted wasn't too pleased by the appointment. An "Alaskan" would presumably be more beholden to him after all these years.