Contractor, Wife Blamed in Stevens Corruption Case

From: New York Sun | September 26, 2008 

WASHINGTON — Senator Stevens was clueless about the cost and scope of a pricey makeover of his Alaska cabin that led to federal corruption charges and threatened his lengthy career, his lawyer said yesterday at the opening of his trial. Federal prosecutors allege that Mr. Stevens — one of Congress's most powerful Republicans and a patriarch of Alaska politics for generations — lied on Senate forms about more than $250,000 in home renovations and gifts from a wealthy oil contractor and close...

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