Exec: Workers helped on senator's [Stevens, R] home

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Source: ap

Exec: Workers helped on senator's home

By DAN JOLING, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 15, 12:34 AM ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In the latest sign of corruption problems for Republicans, a corporate executive testified Friday that his employees worked for months to remodel the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens.


Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator, is under scrutiny in a corruption investigation that also is targeting Alaska state officials.

Bill Allen, former chief executive of oil services company VECO, testified that he spent more than $400,000 to bribe state legislators and for work at Stevens' house in the ski resort town of Girdwood. He said VECO also paid at least two contractors, a plumber and a carpenter, for work on the house. The project in 2000 more than doubled the size of the four-bedroom structure.

Under questioning at the trial of former state House Speaker Pete Kott, Allen said: "I don't think there was a lot of materials" bought for the Stevens remodeling, but "there was some labor."

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