Ted Stevens Tape: We Might 'Spend A Little Time In Jail'

[babylonsister]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/more_in_the_adventures_of_bill.php

More in the Adventures of Bill and Ted
By Kate Klonick - October 6, 2008, 3:49PM


Despite recent snafus, Sen. Ted Stevens' trial continues today, with tapes of phone conversations between Stevens and former VECO CEO Bill Allen being played for the jury.

"I think they're probably listening to this conversation right now," Stevens presciently says in one of the recordings.

"We might have to pay a fine and spend a little time in jail," he continues in the recordings from the fall of 2006, the AP reports. "I hope it doesn't come to that."

The friendship between Stevens and the former VECO CEO was laid out in Allen's testimony against the seven-term senator from Alaska last week. Allen himself pleaded guilty to three counts of bribery and conspiracy in 2007.

"Ted, I love you, you know," Allen said in one of the tapes, illustrating how close the two once were.

"Let's get through this and get back to our boot camps again," Stevens said, referring to trips the friends would take together, The Hill recounts from the trial today.

While seeming to contradict the 84-year-old senator's defense -- that he was unaware that he was not being billed for over $250,000 in gifts and home renovations -- many of the recordings are tinged with pathos given Allen's testimony against Stevens.

"Let's stick this thing out together, OK?" Stevens says during one conversation mentioned by the AP.

"I don't think we've done anything wrong," Stevens told Allen in another recorded conversation where he tried to cheer up his longtime friend and encourage him to have a positive attitude and to get some exercise, according to McClatchy. "I can't think of a thing of anything we've done that's wrong."

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[Sydnie]

2. There's no denyin'

Teddy's been lyin'

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

5. Sydnie!

Nice to see you! There is no denyin' this, is there. He seems to have known the hammer would eventually fall. I guess he thought he was immune. This little tape sure doesn't seem as if it will help his cause.

[Sydnie]

6. Hi Sis!!!

Get yourself over here and give me a hug! :hug:

I hope he wears his hulk tie the day of the verdict. That would make my day!!!

[babylonsister]

7. Here's

a big hug from me! :pals: I hope you are well. I think I saw you fleetingly before the vp debate, and then DU went kaput on me.
And might I add, I can't wait til November 4th! :D

[ThomWV]

3. If you're sittin on a jury and you hear someone say on tape

that they expect to go to jail for whatever it is they are charged with the only thing that is going to go through you mind is "you're god damned right you're gonna go to jail for it". That's what I would think.

[malaise]

4. K & R

I hope Obama will respond to McPOW's attack on Chicago politicians with a comment about teh gang in Alaska.

[Orsino]

8. If they were any tighter, they'd need a lubricant.

Their god is Mammon. Let it eat them.

[Earth_First]

9. KICK! KICK! KICK! KICK! KICK! n/t

[lonestarnot]

10. Just a little slammer time at 84. He's optimistic.

[OakCliffDem]

11. Kick