Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), the longest serving Republican Senator in history, had his Girdwood home searched yesterday by the IRS and the FBI. Stevens is in hot water over his dealings with Bill Allen, former CEO of Veco Corporation, an energy services company. Allen pled guilty in May to charges of bribing state legislators. The Senator's son is a target in that probe: The Alaska investigation has centered on Allen's efforts to bribe lawmakers by handing out wads of hundred-dollar bills in an effort to win favorable tax legislation in Alaska for a natural gas pipeline long sought by the energy industry and leaders of both political parties there. In early June, Ted Stevens told The Washington Post that federal investigators had given him a document preservation request as part of the Veco probe, a request that he expected would lead to him turning over those documents to the FBI. He added that "my son is also under investigation." Stevens said then he had not been...(Read Full Post)