(Photo courtesy of Dennis Zaki)Rep. Don Young on Thursday would not talk about new court filings that for the first time directly tie him to the Alaska corruption investigation through gifts and illegal campaign contributions by Bill Allen and his oil-field service company Veco Corp.
"Don't bother me, don't bother me," Young said, with a wave of his hand, when asked by a reporter about the court filings as he entered the Alaska Federation of Natives convention.
The documents were filed late Wednesday as part of the preparations for the sentencing next week of former Veco chief Bill Allen, who is at the heart of the investigation into corruption in Alaska politics.
It included a 2007 "confession of additional criminal activity," made public for the first time in filings Wednesday, in which Allen alleged 13 years worth of gift-giving by him and fellow Veco executive Rick Smith to "United States Representative A," described as Alaska's representative in the House. Only Don Young fits that description.
Finally! I have been hearing for months that the Feds were about to lower the boom on Corrupt Bastard Don Young, and now it is finally happening.
I was one of the people completely surprised that "Uncle" Ted Stevens was indicted before Don Young. I was absolutely positive that the Feds had much more dirt on Don than they did on Teddy. So I will be paying close attention to see how this investigation plays out.
I actually saw Don yesterday at the AFN convention in the Dena'ina Center. He looked in good spirits after his wife won a posthumous award for her advocacy.
Geyph!
ReplyDeleteHow come you don't link to Phil and Shannyn anymore? I go to different AK blogs every morning and click to another blog from whatever blog I'm reading...WTF?
He's going to squeak out of it.
ReplyDeleteI read on the McClatchy article that his campaign found the discrepancies and sent a check to Allen way before the investigation. Allen hasn't cashed it.
Anonymous 7:09, of course I still link to Shannyn and Phil.
ReplyDeleteYou just have to click the "show all" button if they have not posted recently.
Gryphen. I would have commented earlier this morn but that picture was just too much a visual nausea.
ReplyDeleteMy question is why did this take so long since Allen talked? Because they "screwed up" the whole Stevens debacle? I am afraid in the end we will know not much more than we can assume.
In the mean time i am off to write and bitch at sen Inouyu. As i hope others will also.
AKjah,
ReplyDeleteI called both Sen. Inouye's office in DC, left a message, and his office in Honolulu. The Honolulu office said that the Senator STRONGLY supports the Franken amendment and is NOT looking to remove it. He's been getting a lot of calls about it. Writing and calling can only help to reinforce his resolve. Hawaii depends a lot on Defense contractors so let's continue to let him know that any thought of removing Franken's amendment is unacceptable. Thanks!