Former Alaska Sen. Stevens receives award from fishing group
Published Friday, April 24, 2009
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Stumble It!KODIAK, Alaska - Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens has received a lifetime achievement award from the United Fishermen of Alaska.
It was presented Thursday night at ComFish Alaska, a fisheries trade show.
Stevens was honored for his years of service to the industry including helping author the Magnuson-Stevens Act, a law that guides fishery management in waters between 3 miles and 200 miles offshore.
Stevens declined to discuss the recent dismissal of his felony corruption charges since the federal prosecutors are now under investigation. A judge last month vacated Stevens' conviction because of prosecutorial misconduct.
Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, was defeated in last fall's election just days after his conviction.
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yEAH!
Great..it is good to see something positive being done and said about Senator Stevens...He did a great deal of work defending the fishing industry, not only for all Alaskan but the nation as a whole.
STEVENS = SCUMBAG
takes 10s/100s of thousands of dollars of "gifts" from VECO.
STEVENS = SCUMBAG
Getting out of a proven corruption charge because of a technicality = PRICELESS.
Bravo! He gets the Mullet Award.
Get real. All Ted Stevens did was sell out Alaskan fisherman to big international companies. By the way, what ever happen to his son Ben Stevens with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from these fishing industries as a consultant while passing legislation that benefited these groups. How many independent fisherman and their families living in this State lost their income thanks to Ted Stevens. No wonder he had a $20,000 sculpture of a fish on his deck that was a gift. I wonder who gave it to him. I bet it wasn't the independent fisherman of Alaska.
These guys (United Fishermen of Alaska) are all in bed with Ted and Ben, they were the recipients of his largesse while Ted was cementing the hold on Alaska's fisheries by getting processor shares and divvying up the pie to Trident Seafoods and the Japanese big boys.
The Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board which Ben got tapped to head funneled millions into large processors that Ben had "consulting" contracts with through his company Advance North along with partner Trevor McCabe, a longtime Ted aide. It gets even more incestuous as the onion gets peeled.
Ben sitting on the board of Enstar's parent company "oh, I forgot to mention my $70,000 per annum stipend", the option to buy into 25% of Adak Fisheries, ad infinitum...
The rehabilitation of Ted Stevens, Not!
Ted once did some things that were indisputably good but was dishing out too much dough to his sycophants and camp followers over the years, a one man industry, indeed.
Ben has issues to face and might be the one to bring Poppa Doc down, it's an ugly chapter in Alaska history no matter how you cut it.
Ted Stevens is a CROOK.If it wasn't for the Republican prosecutors he would be in JAIL.He stated he did not want a presidential pardon,but the bungling in the court room gave him one anyway.Such blatant disregard of justice.
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