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Sen. Stevens: Not just dumb ... corrupt, too?
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Senator Ted "The-Internet-is-a-series-of-tubes" Stevens (R. Alaska) has long been known as perhaps the dimmest bulb in the Senate chandelier. Now it turns out that he may be corrupt, too.
Stevens' house was just searched by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service, apparently as part of an bribery investigation. Stevens apparently has been too cozy with Bill Allen, founder of VECO Corp., an Alaska oil and engineering company that's gotten tens of millions of dollars from the federal government. Allen has already been convicted of bribing state politicians in Alaska, and the new probe focuses on VECO's renovating Stevens' home, according to the Associated Press. There are other ties as well, such as VECO paying nearly $250,000 to Stevens' son, and Allen and Stevens co-owning a racehorse.
What does this have to do with networking or the Internet? For now, not much, but in the long run, possibly plenty. The powerful Stevens has long been an opponent of network neutrality. If he's indicted for political corruption, even the too-forgiving voters of Alaska may kick him out of office. And that means net neutrality may be one step closer to reality.
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