Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, seen here competing for the 2007 "Jowliest Alaskan" pageant, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of accepting gifts from the energy company Veco in exchange for voting for laws and measures which would benefit that company. Veco paid for almost $250,000 worth of work to the senator's home. In May of 2007, the CEO of Veco, Bill Allen, a personal friend of Stevens', plead guilty to paying out more than $400,000 "in corrupt payments" to Alaska officials. Ted Stevens used to be best known for his insistence that Congress pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a "bridge to nowhere" which would only benefit a couple hundred Alaskan residents. But he is currently best known for his statement that the Internet is a "series of tubes," after being frustrated that he just got "an Internet" two days late "because it got tangled up." Read more about this corrupt old bastard here.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Senator Ted "The Tubes" Stevens Indicted
