Will HE stay or will he be forced to go?

Anchorage Daily News:

Ex-Veco Corp. CEO Bill Allen admitted in court Friday that he had company employees work several months on a remodeling project at the Girdwood home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

The former head of the oil field services company made the admission Friday while testifying in the federal corruption trial of a former state lawmaker.

Allen and former Veco vice president Rick Smith in May pleaded guilty to extortion, conspiracy and bribery of legislators.

Under cross-examination by defense attorney James Wendt, representing former state Rep. Pete Kott, Allen acknowledged that the more than $400,000 he admitted spending in the bribery charge was for other legislators - and for work done at the Girdwood home of Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate.

More Fun In Alaska

New York Times:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service raided the Alaska home of Senator Ted Stevens on Monday in search of evidence about his relationship to a businessman who oversaw a remodeling project that almost doubled the size of the senator’s house, federal law enforcement officials said.

The decision to raid the home suggests that the corruption investigation focused on Mr. Stevens, a long-serving Republican and former chairman, has taken on new urgency.

Alaska Republican Senator Is In Deep Trouble

Remember Ted Stevens, the man who called the internet a series of tubes, is responsible for the 223 million dollar bridge to nowhere, and threw a juvenile hissy fit on the Senate floor, when other Senators tried to defund his pet pork projects? Well, already under ivestigation by the FBI for having had his house remodeled, for free, by a contractor, he's now pushing for a federal earmark for his son's employer.

TPM Muckraker has the story:

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) wants to make sure an earmark left over from 2005 gets to the right oil company – the one that employs his son, former Alaska Senate President Ben Stevens.

Roll Call (sub. req.) has the story today on the $2 million that is supposed to help a subsidiary of SEMCO Energy to study the feasibility of a pipeline in Alaska.

Another Senate seat the Democrats might be looking at winning, in 2008...