AK-STEVENS: Screw them, if they prove we did something wrong

missypea · 10-06-08, 04:43 PM

Jury hears audio of Stevens fretting about inquiry
By TOM HAYS and JESSE J. HOLLAND – 3 hours ago

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ted Stevens told wealthy businessman Bill Allen they needed to stick together and "really lay low" to beat an FBI investigation into their cozy relationship, according to audiotapes played Monday at the senator's corruption trial.

"Screw them, if they prove we did something wrong," the senator says in one of a series of secretly recorded telephone calls in the fall of 2006. "In my heart, I don't think we did. ... I say, screw it."

Stevens, unaware Allen already was cooperating with investigators, advises him, "We ought to really lay low right now." He also tells him to cut down on drinking, watch his health and await the outcome of the probe into more than $250,000 in renovations on the senator's cabin and other gifts provided by Allen's oil pipeline company, VECO Corp.

"Let's stick this thing out together, OK?" Stevens says.

How would these tapes affect your vote if you were on the jury?

Summerwind · 10-06-08, 04:46 PM

I hate to say it, because anything that screws up the life of a republican makes me endlessly happy, but I wouldn't be swayed by the above conversational disclosure. It sounds like just what anyone whether guilty or not would say. He never admits guilt, he never even implies guilt; he's just pissed and venting.

Hatuey · 10-06-08, 05:15 PM

Cool.

jallman · 10-06-08, 05:30 PM

Nail Stevens to the wall. Nuff said.

Jake Blues · 10-06-08, 08:36 PM

He is corrupt and should have the book thrown at him.

Jake Blues · 11-02-08, 02:25 PM

Guilty on all seven counts.
Hopefully,he will get a long stretch of jailtime out of this.

UtahBill · 11-02-08, 05:34 PM

Inside his twisted cold little heart, he thinks he did nothing wrong....and he isn't the first to let power go to his head.

Vader · 11-03-08, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by UtahBill

Inside his twisted cold little heart, he thinks he did nothing wrong....and he isn't the first to let power go to his head.

That may well be; however, he is a delusional psycho-con who needs to spend 25 years in prison.

In all reality, he will probably be pardoned by Geroge W. Bush.

American · 11-11-08, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by UtahBill

Inside his twisted cold little heart, he thinks he did nothing wrong....and he isn't the first to let power go to his head.

Yeah, he was in the wrong party all along.