For all you Ted Stevens corruption watchers

[Blue_In_AK]

here's another little tidbit, this one maybe not quite as egregious as some of the others, but still something to add to the mounting pile of evidence against old Uncle Ted. Some of you will remember this Bob Penney is the same gentleman who wanted to give Lisa Murkowski such a great deal on his Kenai River waterfront property.

Penney's group was in charge of 2004 earmark
$3 MILLION: Critics say state, not private group, should have directed spending of fisheries money.

By SEAN COCKERHAM
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Published: September 30, 2007
Last Modified: September 30, 2007 at 02:04 AM

In 2004, Alaska state officials came across a puzzling sentence deep inside a bill recently passed by Congress. It said only this: "$2 million is for the Kenai River; $1 million for the Russian River."

That's all.

The officials couldn't tell what the money was for. So they sent an e-mail to the office of Alaska's powerful U.S. senator, Ted Stevens, at the time chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Stevens' panel had helped craft the bill, which covered spending for several federal agencies. The section in question dealt with money distributed out of something called the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.

The reply from Stevens' office to the state: "The $2 million for the Kenai River; and $1 million for the Russian River go to Bob Penny." Then it gave the phone number for Penco, an Anchorage company founded by developer Bob Penney.

That's all.

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Go here for "the rest of the story"
http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/9343908p-9258415c.html