Alaska Senator Ted Stevens indicted on 7 criminal charges!

I have just seen this announced on MSNBC and have very little information.

I will post more when I find more.

Well it looks like this is going to be a very good election year for Alaskan Democrats indeed.

(Link now goes to Reuters article.)

From article:Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, the longest serving U.S. Republican senator ever, was indicted on seven counts related to his holding of public office, a federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Justice Department has scheduled a news conference for 1:20 p.m. to make an announcement "regarding a significant criminal matter." The official said the news conference would announce the criminal charges against Stevens that have been returned by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.

Damn boys and girls this is huge!

Update: A 28-page indictment outlining the charges released by the Justice Department said Stevens provided false information in financial disclosure forms he filed with the Senate that required him to report items of value he had received. He filed the forms between 1999 and 2006.

"Stevens knew the requirements of the financial disclosure forms and knowingly and intentionally sought to conceal and cover up his receipt of things of value by filing financial disclosure forms that contained false statements and omissions concerning Stevens' receipt of these things of value," the indictment said.

This came a huge surprise to most of us political junkies up here.

We have been expecting something to happen in the case against Congressman Don Young (Who must be pissing all over himself about now) or Ted's son, Ben Stevens, who is also being investigated by the authorities.

Personally I always thought that the Senator would be he LAST big fish they would be able to indict. Guess I was wrong, huh?