Reply #18: NY TIMES: Executive Describes Work on Senator’s Home = Sunday, 2007.09.16

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Executive Describes Work on Senator’s Home
By WILLIAM YARDLEY - September 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/us/politics/16alaska.html?ref=us


SEATTLE, Sept. 14 — A major federal contractor in Alaska provided workers and paid contractors to do remodeling work on the home of Senator Ted Stevens, a former executive with the company testified.

The contractor, Bill J. Allen, the former chief executive of the company, the VECO Corporation, testified Friday in an Anchorage courtroom that the company provided up to four workers at a time for several months in 2000 to work on the expansion of Mr. Stevens’s home in Girdwood, Alaska, according to an Associated Press account of testimony in the trial of a former state lawmaker who is facing corruption charges.

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Mr. Allen has pleaded guilty to bribery and other corruption charges involving state lawmakers, including the senator’s son, Ben Stevens, the former president of the Alaska Senate.

One contractor who completed the bulk of the work on the house has said in interviews that he was told to send his invoices, totaling about $100,000, to VECO to be checked for accuracy, and that VECO then forwarded the bills to the senator.

Mr. Stevens has said that he paid all the bills he received and has denied wrongdoing.

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