It feels like the entire Alaska GOP is involved in one form of corruption scandal or another.
Federal agents searched the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens in a widening investigation of alleged public corruption in Congress and the Alaska state legislature.
Prosecutors are investigating whether Mr. Stevens accepted bribes or unreported gifts from oilfield-engineering firm VECO Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Another Alaska Republican, Rep. Don Young, is under criminal investigation in the same case, the Journal reported.
In the raid last night, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service
agents searched the senator's home near Anchorage, an FBI spokesman said. Mr. Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican, is a former chairman of the Appropriations Committee and has long been a powerbroker in Congress and the Republican party.
When your sole purpose of having power is to further that power - the Republican raison d'etre - this is what you get.
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