Ted Stevens Indicted

<nelson voice>Ha! Ha!</nelson voice>
Our favorite intertube rambling, bridge to nowhere building, oil execs don't need to be sworn in to testify to Congress dissembling Senator from Alaska is going to court today to enter a plea on a seven count indictment that he received $250,000 worth of home improvements from an oil exec and lied about them on a disclosure form. What's that sound? I think the bell might be tolling for thee, Ted. Could it have happened to a nicer politician? Maybe. There are a few nicer I can think of. But anyway, maybe (and this is only a maybe) that which hath went around is now coming around.
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Ted Stevens Eyed By FBI

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (you may remember him from "The Internet Is A Series of Tubes") is getting the hairy eyeball from the FBI, who are wondering if the contractor who remodeled Stevens' home did it in return for some form of quid pro quo. Now, given that some of his business partners have made hundreds of millions of dollars off of sweet government contracts or a city of 8000 got their own $315 Million Bridge to Nowhere, it might seem hard to believe that Ted would be inappropriately using his office, but stranger things have happened.