Ted Stevens Talked To Grand Jury Witness: Feds

Here’s another interesting email federal prosecutors found when they were sifting through Sen. Ted Stevens’ files.

Stevens (R-AK) was writing to a friend described here only as “Person A,” who was slated to appear before a grand jury.

This is how the scenario is spelled out in court documents filed last night:

By mid-May 2007, Stevens learned that Person A had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in D.C. On May 17, 2007, Stevens sent Person A two emails that discussed Person A’s upcoming grand jury testimony. In the first email, Stevens told Person A that “I hope we can work something out to make sure you aren’t led astray on this occasion.”

In the second, Stevens was more explicit: “don’t answer questions you don’t KNOW the answers to.”

It’s not clear who “Person A” is but it’s likely one of Stevens’ close friends, possibly one who lives near Stevens’ home in Girwood, AK. The only other reference to that person in the motion describes an incident just after the FBI mounted a series of raids and Stevens, emailing in the middle of the night, asks this same person whether federal agents had searched Stevens’ own home in Girdwood.

On September 1, 2006, defendant Stevens sent two emails to Person A, asking if Stevens’ house had been searched in connection with the Allen/VECO investigation. At 3:49 a.m. on September 1, 2006, Stevens wrote Person A: “press releases say the FBI served a warrant in Girdwood??? Did they hit our house? T.”

At 5:33 p.m. later that day, Stevens again wrote: “Have you been by the Chalet? Teds”