News Coverage Resulting From our Research
Below is a small fraction of the corrupt acts that made headlines all or in part due to our research. The Daily News will not allow us to post these articles so we devised Google searches you can use to find them. Just copy and paste the blue part only from the italicized phrases below into your Google search box and press search. If quote marks are shown, include in blue, include them in your copy and past.
• Begich and Stevens both well paid for being helping developers John Rubini and Leonard Hyde make millions at taxpayer expense. Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich and Alaska’s biggest commercial real estate developers intersect
• Former state Rep. Beverly Masek pleading guilty to a conspiracy in which she accepted a bribe to kill a bill that would have raised oil production taxes.
• For conspiring with the owners of Veco to bribe other senators to keep taxes on oil low former state Sen. John Cowdery was ordered on Tuesday to serve six months in home confinement.
• The legislature refused to acknowledge clear evidence of bribery in their midst until ”they were forced by a conviction in federal court to pay attention”
• Senator Begich says there’s nothing corrupt about the parking deal and that Metcalfe is slinging mud. Begich arranged for the city to rent a friends vacant lot for $29,000 per month. The appraised rent value of the lot was about $5,000.
• Senator Lesil McGuire’s bribery problem.
• Alaska Senate president Ben Stevens has accepted bribes from seafood processors, according to Ray Metcalfe.
• Also Google Seattle processors subpoenaed in seafood inquiry
• Also Google Ben’s Bribes in a nutshell
• SeaLife Center deal was good for ex-aide to Stevens
• Also Google When Sen. Ted Stevens diverted federal land-purchase
• Only part of this story was ever told. Not long after Don Young’s campaign former manager Curtis Thayer became a well paid spokesman for Anchorage’s gas company Enstar, Ben Stevens was secretly placed on the payroll of Enstar’s parent company Semco and shortly after that, Ben’s father U.S Senator Ted Stevens earmarked about $4 million to cover the cost of a study being sought by Enstar. Unable to get law enforcement to investigate, we attempted to tease out more information by making complaints to the Alaska Public Offices Commission over Ben Stevens failure to report income.
• Google Former state senator Ben Stevens has appealed three decisions by the Alaska Public Offices Commission
• In April of 2005, Ray Metcalfe began walking Senator Ben Stevens Senate District collecting signatures for his removal from office for taking kickbacks and soliciting bribes from Veco and others. In the process Metcalfe met dozens of people anxious to share their knowledge of the criminal activities of Ben Stevens and his father. Ray Metcalfe compiled and delivered file folder after file folder of evidence to state and federal law enforcement and state legislators. All but the FBI blew him off. On August 31, 2006, over 100 agents of the FBI conducted the biggest public corruption related raid in FBI history.
• Google FBI agents returned last week to the legislative office of Senate President Ben Stevens and seized more evidence,
• Google Ben Stevens secret fish dea
• Google Ben’s Bribes in a nutshell
• Google Federal authorities investigating Sen. Ted Stevens are trolling the Alaska fishing industry for evidence