Reply #7: and more: New details surface in Stevens case

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008117762_stevens16.html

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, quickly turned a $5,000 Florida condo investment into a profit of more than $100,000 in an unconventional transaction that federal prosecutors hope to introduce at his trial on charges that he lied on financial disclosure forms.

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The new filings go substantially further than a July indictment that charges Stevens with seven counts of failing to disclose gifts from 1999 through 2006. Most of the alleged gifts, including the renovation of the senator's Girdwood, Alaska, home, were from former oil-service company VECO and its politically active chairman, Bill Allen.

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The documents detailing the Florida condo transaction also allege that Stevens sought jobs from VECO for a son and a grandchild and a new Jeep Grand Cherokee for his daughter Lily in 2005.

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In March 2006, after the government had begun tapping Allen's phones, Stevens asked a lobbyist to ask Allen for a job in Phoenix for one of his three sons. The lobbyist said Stevens mentioned Allen by name.

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