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"Justice in the Balance"
USA Today started investigating the topic of potentially corrupt federal prosecutors after the case against Sen. Ted Stevens was dropped. Reporters looked at "tens of thousands"of "routine cases" that were filed in federal court to locate any mishandling of the proceedings. The outcome was startling. Federal prosecutors have "violated the law to win convictions," setting guilty people free and landing "innocent people in jail."
Tags: Ted Stevens; prosecutors; U.S. Justice Department; Nino Lyons; Lexis; PACER; database; FOIA
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Ben Stevens' Secret Fish Deal
Reporter Richard Mauer investigated the previously unreported conflict of interest that Ben Stevens, president of the Alaska Senate, had in a fish-processing company on Adak Island. Mauer shows how the owners of the fisheries plant attempted to reward Stevens by granting him an option in their company, which was more valuable because of a piece of special interest legislation being presented to Congress by Ben Stevens' father Senator Ted Stevens.
Tags: fish; Alaska; conflict of interest; Ben Stevens; Senator Ted Stevens; Adak fisheries
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Conflicts of Interest in the Senate
The LA Times investigates five senators who were lobbying for certain companies and corporations. These companies were funding the senators or their immediate family members. The investigation revealed that all the senators had sons who had recently launched lucrative businesses as consultants for these corporations. Altogether the Times revealed that there were 28 US senators receiving funds form various corporations.
Tags: US senators; US senators and major corporations; funds from corporations; Ted Stevens; Harry Reid; Orrin Hatch; John Breaux; Trent Lott; FOI
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Special Olympics
Bob Stevens, the executive director of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games, was paid $715,000 for three years work as president of the nonprofit. Stevens' compensation, far exceeding others in a similar capacity, was set by a subcommittee of the nonprofit's board composed of businessmen who owed a large part of their success to the power of Ben Stevens' father, U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
Tags: Special Olympics; Ben Stevens; 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games; U.S. Senator Ted Stevens; Alaska
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Pork in the sky
Washington Post Magazine recounts how U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R. - Alaska) secured over $57 million for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for the study of the aurora borealis and its possible energy potential; makes the case that academia is the latest area of pork-barrel politics.
Tags: pork-barrel politics; federal budget; federal spending