Gettin’ dicey for Sen. Stevens (R-AK).
Over the last week we’ve been bringing you news about the Veco Corp. corruption scandal in Alaska getting closer to Sen. Stevens (R-AK). Stevens’ problem is that Veco, the company at the center of the bribery probe, which is a smaller scale version of Halliburton (an oil services company) oversaw the
renovation of Stevens’ house. And now the Post has more.
In what the Post terms a “brief interview” Stevens, who’s been refusing all comment about the Veco probe, concedes the FBI “put me on notice to preserve some records.”
I’ll bet.
As we noted on Monday, the main contractor on Stevens’s suspect home renovation, Augie Paone, has now lawyered up and clammed up after giving an interview to a local TV station that can’t have made Sen. Stevens very happy.
Paone told the Post: “My lawyers told me it would not be wise to talk while the investigation is ongoing. We’ll just see what happens in the next couple of weeks.”
Here’s our report on Stevens’ home renovation from Tuesday’s episode of TPMtv …