The vice chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee has been indicted 'on charges he lied about receiving gifts worth more than $250,000 from an Alaska-based energy company on whose behalf he intervened in Washington.'
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The longest-serving Republican in the US Senate has been found guilty of lying about gifts worth $250,000 he received from an oil company.
Ted Stevens, 84, was charged with seven counts in connection with the gifts.
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Stevens, as well as Alaska Representative Don Young, have long been known for their arrogant ways in the Senate. At some point, they just become arrogant and believed that, like the story of Jesus, they actually could walk on water. Well, maybe not. They did want to build a bridge to nowhere.
Anybody want to be that this won't be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewarttoday or tomorrow? Nice clip of Stevens at the beginning of the investigation
With any luck, he will be found guilty and sentenced to hard labor welding tubes onto the Internet to increase its bandwidth.
The internet is a series of tubes.
It's definitely not a truck on the bridge to nowhere.