F.B.I. Studies Senator’s Role in Contract
By PHILIP SHENON
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 — The F.B.I. is investigating whether Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska had a role in arranging a 1999 government contract worth as much as $70 million for a company that oversaw renovations of his house months later, officials said Thursday.
The contract was awarded by the National Science Foundation to VECO, an Alaska oil-services company founded by a businessman who has confessed to bribing officials.
It is one of several government contracts and grants that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is scrutinizing in a corruption investigation centering on Alaska lawmakers, including Mr. Stevens and the state’s sole House member, Don Young.
Mr. Stevens and Mr. Young, both Republicans, have denied wrongdoing in their dealings with the founder of VECO, Bill Allen. The senator’s home in Girdwood, a resort city, was renovated in 2000 with Mr. Allen’s help. F.B.I. agents raided it last month.
A spokesman for National Science Foundation, an agency that promotes scientific research, confirmed that the bureau had requested information about the 1999 contract and a later contract valued at up to $100 million to VECO to provide logistics for Arctic researchers.
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New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 — The F.B.I. is investigating whether Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska had a role in arranging a 1999 government contract worth as much as $70 million for a company that oversaw renovations of his house months later, officials said Thursday.
The contract was awarded by the National Science Foundation to VECO, an Alaska oil-services company founded by a businessman who has confessed to bribing officials.
It is one of several government contracts and grants that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is scrutinizing in a corruption investigation centering on Alaska lawmakers, including Mr. Stevens and the state’s sole House member, Don Young.
Mr. Stevens and Mr. Young, both Republicans, have denied wrongdoing in their dealings with the founder of VECO, Bill Allen. The senator’s home in Girdwood, a resort city, was renovated in 2000 with Mr. Allen’s help. F.B.I. agents raided it last month.
A spokesman for National Science Foundation, an agency that promotes scientific research, confirmed that the bureau had requested information about the 1999 contract and a later contract valued at up to $100 million to VECO to provide logistics for Arctic researchers.
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