It's a good thing the Internet isn't a dump truck...
or else Ted Stevens would be crushed beneath a heap of rubble right now. The senior (and I mean SENIOR) Republican Senator from Alaska is starting to show concern over the Federal Corruption Investigation into the remodeling of his Alaska home.
Why the investigation you ask?
The remodeling was overseen by Bill Allen, a contractor who has . Allen is founder of VECOCorp., an Alaska-based oil field services and engineering company thathas reaped tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts.
Allen is cooperating with the FBI, and investigators appear tobe looking at whether VECO got anything in return for the homeimprovement help.
Some of you might remember Ted Stevens from his comments on the while discussing net neutrality in June of 2006.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. Andagain, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It'snot a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
Just a reminder, at the time of that statement, Stevens was Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, the committee in charge of regulating the Internet.
Last month, Stevens was asked by the FBI to regarding a corruption investigation among Alaska legislators, and has to advise him in the disclosure of said documents.
So far, Stevens' main concern on the probe appears to re-election, (his term expires in '08.) When asked about the probe Stevens' stated:
"It doesn't matter what anyone says, itdoes shake you up. If this is still hanging around a year fromNovember, it could cause me some trouble.
I'm sure there won't be any trouble Ted. My only advice to you is to stay away from the ";" there's some nasty stuff out there. And if you feel like you're being singled out, just go back to work; you're in .
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