Les Jones

Politics > Crooked Politician Caught Red-handed With His Filthy Mitt in the Cookie Jar

allegedly:

Veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was charged on Tuesday with concealing more than $250,000 of gifts, including renovation of his house, from an Alaska oil services company, the Justice Department said.

The Alaska politician, who has served 40 years in the senate, was charged in a federal grand jury indictment with seven counts of making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms from 2001 to 2006, the department said. The six-term senator is accused of receiving substantial improvements to property he owns in Alaska, new vehicles in exchange for older ones worth far less, and household goods, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Fans of Name That Party will note that Reuters worked the Senator's Republican party affiliation in the second word of the story, but wait! Just for funsies I searched for William Jefferson on Reuters site. Surprisingly, they put his party affiliation in the first sentence of all three stories about his indictment I perused, in one case making it the very first word. Good on Reuters for getting their act together on party citation.