Company Tied To Stevens Fishery Scandal Got $3.5 Million Earmark

[RedEarth]

One of the companies involved in the widening federal probe into Alaska political corruption is positioned to benefit handsomely from a $3.5 million earmark tucked into a 2008 Senate spending bill by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), CQ reports.

The company, Trident Seafoods Corp., was one of several that received federal money via a local board headed by Stevens' son, Ben Stevens. While the younger Stevens dolled out federal grants supplied by his father, he received "consulting fees" from an association formed by the same companies winning the grants. Trident CEO Charles Bundrant contributed $6,700 to the elder Stevens' campaign and affiliated PACs since 2004. He also gave the National Republican Senatorial Committee $35,000 between 2005 and 2007.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003833.php

[Blue_In_AK]

1. The noose is tightening around Ted and Ben...

Our theory is that they're taking out Ted first before they indict Ben so that he can't influence any criminal proceedings against his son who is in all of this up to his eyeballs. He got more money from VECO for "consulting fees" while he was state Senate president than all the other indicted state legislators combined. So he "consults" with an oil service company and "consults" with Trident Seafoods. Gee, this guy must know a LOT about a lot of stuff to be doing all this "consulting" -- NOT!!

[Hand]

2. Oh, man...

Ted Stevens doing the perp walk... delicious! Probably screaming "NO! NO!" every step of the way. :evilgrin:

[L. Coyote]

3. If he longest-serving Republican Senator is in the Culture of Corruption

how long has this been going on? And, are any Rs not members?

[L. Coyote]

4. Stevens Suspicious of FBI M.O. Behind House Search

Sen. Craig: Stevens Suspicious of FBI M.O. Behind House Search
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291771,00.html



WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Stevens, currently the subject of an FBI corruption probe, is questioning the modus operandi of the FBI in the daylong search of his home in Girdwood, Alaska, fellow western state colleague Sen. Larry Craig said Wednesday.

Craig said Stevens, who has avoided the press as much as possible working in his secluded Capitol hideaway office, told him that he had been informed by the FBI that he was under investigation and agents were going to search his home.

Stevens apparently recounted to Craig that he said okay and offered to send the agency a key to his house, but the FBI official who contacted Stevens refused the offer and instead said agents had ways of getting in on their own.

That's just what they proceeded to do on Monday when FBI and IRS officials showed up with a locksmith in tow. They were able to enter the home on their own, though an array of media were there to capture the scene for posterity.

"The story then became the FBI break-in into the home,....