So how does Sen. Ted Stevens 
(R-AK) slice off a few slabs of bacon from all that pork he sends up to Alaska? At TPMmuckraker.com we’re closely following the federal investigation into Sen. Stevens and his son, former Alaska state senate President Ben Stevens.
It turns out that it’s not just about the oil services business.
Stevens and son also have a little angle with the state fishing industry that’s got the feds attention. Ted put his son Ben in charge of a board that distributed $12 million in federal money in grants to state fisheries companies. Ben in turn pulled down at least three-quarters of a million dollars in ‘consulting fees’ from the same fisheries companies for services the nature of which has never been disclosed.
Laura McGann has the story.
