Bruce Weyhrauch
ARRESTED - Weyhrauch has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial.
On April 22, 2007, Bruce Weyhrauch’s 15-foot boat was found adrift near Juneau, with Weyhrauch himself missing. At the time it was found, the vessels engine was still running. It has been reported that he had just dropped off his son and was returning to his home port. The Coast Guard immediately began searching for him.
Weyhrauch was found alive the next day and airlifted to a hospital. Subsequent reporting revealed that Weyhrauch had fallen overboard and swam to Coghlan Island in Auke Bay as his boat drifted away. He was treated for hypothermia after his rescue. His vessel was undamaged.
Date/Place of Birth:
February 14, 1953
Sacramento, California
Residency in Alaska:
Sitka: 1974 - 1977
Angoon: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1987
Juneau: 1982, 1986 - present
Occupation:
Attorney
Small Business Owner.
Family:
Wife - Luann
Children: Benjamin, Maria, Barclay
Education:
Lincoln High School, Nebraska
Sheldon Jackson College
California State University, Humboldt: 1979
- B.S. Natural Resource Planning
Northwestern School of Law,
Lewis & Clark College: 1986
- Juris Doctorate
Alaska State House of Representatives: 2003 - present
Chair, Ways and Means Committee
2005 - present
Finance Committee: 2005 - present
Chair, State Affairs: 2003 - 2004
Select Committee on Legislative Ethics:
2003 - present
Vice-Chair, Administrative Regulation Review
Joint Committee: 2003 - 2004
Legislative Council Joint Committee: 2003 - present
Special Committee on Military & Veterans’ Affairs:
2003 - 2004
Finance Subcommittees:
- Chair, Labor and Workforce Development:
2005 - present
- Chair, University of Alaska: 2005 - present
- Administration: 2003 - 2004
- Court System: 2003 - 2004
Southeast Caucus: 2003 - present
Other Political and Government Positions:
Alaska State Senate Legislative Staff: 1982
Clerk, Department of Law: 1986 - 1987
Law Clerk, Alaska Supreme Court
- Judge Pegues: 1987 - 1988
Juneau Economic Development Council: 1994 - 1995
Juneau Port Authority Committee: 1995
Business and Professional Positions:
President, Alaska State Bar Association
Board of Governors: 2000 - 2001
President, Juneau Bar Association: 1994, 1996
President, Alaska Commercial Fisherman’s Memorial
Service Organizations and Community Involvement:
Boy Scouts of America
- Board, Southeast Area Council: 1998 - 2005
- Cubmaster, Denleader, Pack 6: 2000 - 2002
Board, AWARE: 1988 - 1991
Board, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Juneau: 1987 - 1988
Rotary: 1999 - present
Awards & Recognitions:
Sole Practitioner of the Year Award: 2001
Hobbies:
Film, Hunting, Fishing, Scouts, Gardening, Camping.BRUCE WEYHRAUCH News
Bruce Weyhrauch
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Legislators’ corruption trials split for appeal
A federal judge Wednesday ordered separate trials for two former Republican legislators to allow jury selection for one to move forward while the government appeals an earlier ruling favoring the other.
Judge rules ex-lawmakers to be tried separately
A federal judge today split the pending corruption trial of two former Republican legislators to allow the trial of one to go ahead while the government appeals a ruling made this week favoring the other.
Pete Kott-Rick Smith transcript
Pete Kott-Bill Allen phone call transcript (graphic language)
Kott wants a lid put on mixup over medication given to him
Former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott is asking the judge in his political corruption case to prevent the jury from hearing evidence that ex-Veco chief executive Bill Allen supplied him with pills — and that the results were not exactly as planned.
Pete Kott-Rick Smith transcript
Pete Kott-Bill Allen phone call transcript (graphic language)
Ex-legislators maneuver as corruption trial nears
With their public corruption trial just over a week away, former state Reps. Pete Kott and Bruce Weyhrauch are maneuvering to have big chunks of the prosecution case thrown out.
Ex-legislator asks for separate trial from co-defendant Kott
Three weeks before the corruption trial of former state Reps. Bruce Weyhrauch and Pete Kott is set to begin, Weyhrauch wants a judge to split his case from that of his co-defendant.
More political corruption coverage
The corruption trial for former Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch, R-Juneau, will remain in Anchorage, a federal judge has ruled.
More political investigation coverage
Weyhrauch fought off bites of cold, mosquitoes
Despite uncontrollable shivering and swarming mosquitoes, former state legislator Bruce Weyhrauch says he never thought about the possibility of dying during the 17 hours he spent wet, cold and missing after falling off his boat and swimming to a nearby island in the icy waters of Auke Bay.
Federal authorities charge three legislators
Three more state legislators were arrested on federal corruption charges Friday, accused of selling their votes and influence to the oil field services company Veco Corp. and its chief executive, Bill Allen, during last year’s debate on oil taxes.
Federal agents raid legislative offices
Federal agents swarmed legislative offices around the state Thursday, executing search warrants in a coordinated series of raids that appeared to target the longstanding relationship between the oil-field service company Veco and leading lawmakers. An FBI spokesman said federal agents executed about 20 search warrants statewide.
Judge delays two corruption trials
A federal judge Monday delayed the political corruption trials of former state Reps. Pete Kott and Bruce Weyhrauch by two months.
Former legislator wants trial relocated to Juneau
Citing convenience and a chance to avoid delay and expense, former state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch wants a federal judge to move his trial from Anchorage to Juneau, where he and co-defendant Pete Kott live.
