Another one bites the dust.. Bill Weimer gets 6 months in jail.

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Weimar sentenced to six months in prison

Posted: Nov 12, 2008 10:01 AM

Updated: Nov 12, 2008 10:01 AM

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Weimar walking to court Wednesday
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by Jill Burke
Wednesday. November 12, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska-- One of the defendants in the Department of Justice's ongoing corruption probe in to Alaska politics was sentenced Wednesday morning.

Former Alaskan Bill Weimar was sentenced to six months in jail, followed by six months of home confinement for illegally donating $20,000 to a state candidate's campaign in 2004, and expecting Legislative favors in return. He also received a $75,000 fine.

Judge John D. Sedwick called Weimar's case a serious offense.

"It is the kind of offense that does great damage to the community. It allows for the corruption of the public process that we all really depend on," the judge said.

On Wednesday, Weimar called his actions a "criminal thinking error."

"I paid it and that was wrong. I should have known better," Weimar said in court.

Weimar pleaded guilty in August to two felony counts: conspiracy, and structuring a financial transaction relating to an illegal campaign conrtibution and working to hide it from public view.

This is a breaking story. Return to KTUU.com for updates and watch the Channel 2 News evening broadcasts for the complete report.

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Hopefully Ben Stevens is next ......

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1. Nebraska Repub. Gov calls on Stevens to resign

He (Gov Jindal of Louisiana) blamed the administration and congressional leaders for cutting taxes without cutting spending and for not offering solutions besides "the other side's worse," and he said the party must "stop making excuses for corruption." He named Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who has been convicted of unlawfully accepting gifts but whose reelection race is very tight.

Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska was ready to take Jindal up on the challenge. "I think he ought to resign today," Heineman said of Stevens, and asked his fellow governors if they wanted to make a similar statement. "Do we have the courage to do that?"