p2pnet news | politics:- FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents searched the Alaska home of senator Ted Stevens Monday, “amid a corruption probe that has already snared two oil-company executives and a state lobbyist,” says CNN.com.

Stevens hit the online headlines, last summer, when, as chairman of the Commerce Committee and, “one of Washington’s leading players on technology policy,” he described the Net is a “series of tubes” also saying with, “one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to you daily by subscription, by delivery service” And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order. But you pay for that. Right?”

He went on:

This service is not going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what? You can order ten of ‘em delivered to you! And the delivery charge is free. Right?

Now, “Stevens, 83, is under a federal investigation for his relationship with Bill Allen, an oil field services contractor who was convicted this year of bribing state lawmakers,” says the Mercury News.

“A 2000 renovation project more than doubling the size of Stevens’ home in the ski resort community of Girdwood was overseen by Allen, who is founder of VECO Corp. The Alaska-based oil field services and engineering company has reaped tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts.”

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Also See:
CNN.com – FBI searches U.S. senator’s home amid corruption probe, July 30, 2007
series of tubes – Net regulator, ‘dazed, confused’, July 15, 2006
Mercury News – U.S. Sen. Stevens’ home searched by FBI, July 30, 2007

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