ted stevens

Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon named Mary Patrice Brown as the new head of the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Justice Department’s internal ethics unit.
The changing of the guard at the sensitive ethics office comes just after embarrassing revelations of federal attorney misconduct in the prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). U.S. District [...]

From The Hill:
The judge in the corruption trial against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has filed criminal contempt charges against the team of government lawyers who prosecuted Stevens.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan scolded the prosecution in agreeing to dismiss charges against Stevens. “In nearly 25 years on the bench I have never seen anything approaching [...]

Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) tumble out of the serious 2012 presidential stakes continues as she asks for Alaska’s duly elected Democratic Sen. Mark Begich to resign, because the feds botched the case against former GOP Sen. Ted Stevens.

[Alaska GOP Chairman Randy Ruedrich] thought Begich should step down “so Alaskans may have the chance to vote [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder won lots of praise today for asking a court to dismiss the indictment against convicted former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) based on allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, including from Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who said the decision shows that Holder is “committed to the rule of law, regardless of politics.”
But [...]

Politico reports an outrageous twist to the already-absurd tale of the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), convicted this fall on seven counts of federal bribery-related charges. This seemingly clear-cut corruption case, which was mangled from the get-go, now looks even worse.

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), for his seven-count felony conviction of failing to list gifts worth $250,000 on his Senate disclosure forms.
Stevens, who maintains his innocence, has reportedly not asked [...]

Since former (man, it feels good to type that) Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted on seven felony corruption charges, there have been some serious twists in the case against the 85-year-old man known as “Uncle Ted” to Alaskans.
Just a few weeks ago, a whistleblower came forward reporting that the Justice Department had “intentionally schemed” [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Politico that he thinks former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) — convicted on seven felony counts of failing to disclose gifts worth about $250,000 from an Alaska energy firm on his Senate disclosure forms — should not serve jail time.
Reid explains that Stevens, 85, is a throwback from [...]

Just a quick observation on the Blagojevich arrest: Did anyone else find it ironic that this episode comes just three days after Democratic Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) lost his reelection bid?
You know Jefferson. He’s the guy discovered to have $90,000 in cash stored in his freezer — wrapped in aluminum foil no less. In June [...]

Now that Sen. Ted Stevens is out of the Senate, nixing a chance for a special election in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin might be eyeing another potential seat — Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska), Politico reports.
Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father when he took office as governor of Alaska, is up for [...]