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JULY 25, 2007Alaska's Young, Stevens Face Inquiryu.s. Prosecutors Look at TiesOfRepublican Lawmakers To Engineering Firm VECOBy JOHN R. WILKEWASHINGTON -- A senior House Republican has come under criminal investigation in th e Justice Department'swidening inquiry into alleged influence-peddling an d self-dealing in Congress.Rep. Don Young ofAlaska, the former chairman of th e House Transportation Committee, now is the subject ofacontinuing criminal inquiryinvolving possible political favors for a company in Alaska, people close to the casesaid. Sen. Ted Stevens ofAlaska, the powerful former chairman of the Appropriations Committee an d thelongest-serving Senate Republican, is also now under criminal investigation, these people said.Federal investigators ar e examining whether Rep. Young or Sen. Stevens accepted bribes, illegal gratuities orunreported gifts from VECOCorp., Alaska's largest oil-field engineering firm, people close to the case said.I t isn't known what VECO allegedly ma y have received in return. The company has been awarded a series offederal contracts since 2000, including contracts to provide logistics support for arctic research, among otherprojects.

The two lawmakers ar e among the highest-ranking members of either party to comeunder scrutiny in th e wave of public-corruption probes that ha s sweptWashington inthe past three years. In the past year, two congressmen have been sent to prison, athird has been indicted for bribery, an d at least a half-dozen others are underinvestigation in separate cases.For a decade, former VECOChief Executive BillAllen ha s held fund-raisers for Mr.Young in Anchorage every August, known as "The Pig Roast," participants said.Public records show contributions to Mr. Young of at least $157,000 from VECOemployees an d its political-action committee between 1996 an d 2006, the last yearth e event was held.

Don Young Mr. Young amended his campaign-financefilings in January to reflect $38,000 inpayments to Mr. Allen, who is now cooperating with federal investigators in the case.The refunds, which haven't previously been reported, were labeled "fund-raising costs" in documents filed withthe Federal Election Commission.

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Mr. Young has hired a criminal-defense team and has said his campaign committeehas paid $262,000 in legal fees in the past three months. A spokesman for Mr.Young declined to comment on any possible investigation and wouldn't say why hislegal fees have risen sharply. Mr. Young has also faced questions about campaigndonations received from convicted lobbyist JackAbramoff. The congressman wasn'tpreviously reported to be under criminal investigation.The burly, bearded congressman has beenAlaska's sole House member for 18terms.He is perhaps best known as the architect of the "bridge to nowhere," a project in amassive 2005 transportation bill that he named after his wife, Lu, and "stuffed like aturkey," as he pu t it when the $286 billion bill was done. The proposed bridge to asparsely populated island off Ketchikan, Alaska, came to symbolize out-of-controlcongressional spending to fund pet projects by lawmakers in both parties.

I t has been widely reported that VECO is at the center of a federal investigation of corruption in the Alaska statelegislature. But the inquiry into Mr. Young, as well as details ofthe allegations against Mr. Stevens, haven'tpreviously been known.VECOwas acquired in June by CH2M Hill, a closely held Colorado engineering firm, after Mr. Allen, VECO'sformer CEO, agreed in May to plead guilty to charges of bribery, conspiracy and extortion.Mr. Stevens has publicly said that he was asked to retain documents related to the federal investigation of hisson, Ben Stevens, and other members of the state legislature, and related to VECO's role in the remodeling ofafamily home in Alaska in 2000. Sen. Stevens recently hired a criminal-defense lawyer. He has said he isn 't atarget of theAlaska probe an d hasn't violated any law.VECO executives, including Mr. Allen, have been big supporters ofMr. Stevens as well. And while VECO has wona string of federal contracts in recent years, it isn't known which contracts are the focus of the investigation.

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Mr. Stevens was directlyinvolved in funding contractswith the National ScienceFoundation, for example, whichwent to support arctic research,But there is no evidence hesought to influence the award ofcontracts to VECO, officials atthe NSF said. Congressionalrecords show thatMr. Stevenson several occasions addedextra funding to the budget forarctic research above what theagency sought.

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Sen. Stevens's spokesman,Aaron Saunders, declined to comment on the broader public-corruption investigation. The senator , in astatement, said: "This investigation should proceed to its conclusionwithout any appearance that I haveattempted to influence its outcome." He added that the process should proceed "so that all the facts can beestablished."The government's wide-ranging investigation of corruption in Alaska has already snared three current or formerstate legislators, who were arrested earlier this year, as well as Mr. Allen and a second VECO executive. BenStevens, Mr. Stevens's son, hasn't been charged in the case. His office was raided by agents of the Federal Bureauof Investigation last fall. The investigation is being led by the Justice Department's public-integrity section, whichis presenting evidence to grand juries in Washington and Anchorage.

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In the raid of Ben Stevens's office, documents related to VECO's gas-pipeline work were seized, along withrecords of his work for an Alaska fish-marketing board, an entity that was created and funded by Congress withsupport from his father.Write to John R.Wilke [email protected] in The Wall St reet Journal , page A4

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Back to Original ArticleThe NationJustice Department may investigate late earmarkAlaska's Don Young, who hadfunding ties to a Florida developer, sought money that officials didn't request.April 18, 2008 I BenDuBose ITimes Staff WriterWASHINGTON - The Senate voted Thursday to ask the Justice Department to investigate allegations of impropriety and possible criminalviolations involvinga Sro-million Florida highway project slipped into a bill after Congress had approved it.The earmark, inserted two years ago into a five-year, $286-billion highway funding bill, was for a Coconut Road interchange project on Interstate 75nearNaples, Fla. But state and local officials never requested money for the interchange."If we cannot trust what weagreeto in both bodies ofCongress willbe sent to the president, then everything we pass has tobe suspect," Sen. Tom Coburn(R-Okla.) said.Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), former chairman ofthe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, put the earmark in the bill. His staff acknowledgedto the Washington Post that his aides had "corrected" the earmark just before it went to the White House, specifying that the money be spent ontheinterchange.Young spokeswoman Meredith Kenny said in a statement that the congressman always intended the earmark to designate money for the project. She addedthat Young believed the project was "entirely worthy" and welcomed any inquiry.Young's office said he took up the project at the request ofcommunity residents, but he also benefited from campaign donations raised by a developer whoO " ~ l S 4,000 acres near the proposed 1-75interchange.The Naples Newsreported that developer Daniel Aronoff held a fundraiser for Young in February2005, bringing in more than $40,000 for his campaign.Young's office said campaign contributions weren't the motive."I think it's the right thing for the stateof Florida, and you know, right now, they're supportive of it," Young told the Associated Press.The LeeCounty Metropolitan Planning Organization has rejected the earmark three t imes in the last year because i t requires the money bespent onthat projectinstead ofon general highway improvements throughout the county.The amendment referring the matter to the Just ice Department was sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and was one oftwooptions considered by theSenate. Coburn proposed using a joint House-Senate panel to investigate, saying he had "great qualms, great worries" about giving the Justice Department thepower to investigate Congress.But Boxer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid CD-Nev.)said such a panel raised constitutional separation-of-powers issues because one house ofCongresswould be involved in investigating the other. Boxer's measure passed 63 to 29, barelyabove the required 60-vote threshold. Coburn's amendment fellshort ona 49-43 vote."If violations offederal criminal law occurred, it is the province of the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate and prosecute them," Reid said.The House, however, would have to agree to the measure for the Justice Department tolaunch an inquiry, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi CD-SanFrancisco) saidThursdayshe didn't see the need for that involvement."We have an ethics committee," Pelosi said. "Idon't see why that would be necessary."Young has been questioned in previous investigations. A former aide ofhis transportation committee has pleaded guilty to accepting gifts from lobbyist JackAbramoff, and a former Alaska energyservices corporate executive -- who has admitted to taking bribes -- testified that holding annual fundraisers for therepresentative was part of his job.Young's reelection bid is anticipated to be his most challenging since he was elected in 1973.

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Federal prosecutors drop Young caseSCRUTINY: No details are offered at end of official investigation.By RICHARD [email protected](08/05/1017:59:43)Rep. Don Young said Wednesday that federal authorities have decided against seeking hisindictment and have dropped their long-running corruption investigation of him.Young, a 77-year-old Republican who has represented Alaska in Congress since 1973, announcedthe end of the government's investigation in a terse, one-sentence statement from his Washingtonoffice that offered no details. He had been under scrut iny by the FBI and the Justice Department'sPublic Integrity Section since at least 2006.Meredith Kenny, Young's press secretary, said Young's attorneys got the word from the JusticeDepartment in a telephone call Wednesday. Young was in Alaska at the time, she said.A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. The agency rarely makes a publicannouncement when it drops a case, though it will sometimes alert crime victims and potentialdefendants of a no-prosecution decision.Kenny said Young wouldn't comment unt il he's c leared to talk by his attorneys." I'm wait ing for quidance f rom the legal team about what he can do and what he can say," Kennysaid. "They were notified this morning and that is all we can say. This all happened in the lastcouple hours."Young's lead attorney, John Dowd, declined to comment."There is nothing to talk about beyond the statement issued by the Congressman's office," Dowdsaid in an e-mail message.Young reported spending more than $1 .2 m illion in campaign money on legal fees starting in 2007.Young paid the attorney fees out of a special legal defense fund created with donations.Young faced federal scrutiny on at least two fronts: his connections to the defunct Anchorage oilfield services company Veco Corp. and two of i ts executives, Bill Allen and Rick Smith, whoadmitted making illegal payments to his campaign and buying him gif ts ; and the mysteriousearmark in Young's highway bill fo r an interchange in Florida sought by a developer whocontributed to Young's re-election in 2005.According to a document filed by federal prosecutors in 2009, Al len, as Veco's chief executive,confessed to directing his company to make between $130,000 and $195,000 in il lega l andunreported contributions to Young's election campaigns from 1993 to 2006. The money was usedfor Young's annual pig-roast fundraiser."Each year, Allen and Smith arranged fo r the purchase of catering expenses, l iquor, equipmentrentals, and other associated costs," said Allen's confession, filed by prosecutors before Allen wassentenced to three years in prison after admitting to bribery and tax charges. "These expenses

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IFederal prosecutors drop Young case http://www.adn.com/20 I0/08/04/v-printer/ 1395830/rep-young-wwere paid using Veco's corporate funds, and amounted to approximately $10,000 to $15,000 eachyear."After the investigation began, Young's campaign attempted to reimburse Veco $37,626 forexpenses associated with th e pig roast. Veco never cashed the check, and Young's campaign latersen t the money to the U.S. Treasury.Smith, also prominent in Anchorage's golf scene, used Allen's credit card to buy Young a $1,000set of clubs, according to the confession. Young never reported the g if t.Allen also told FBI agents that participants in at least one "golf outing" organized by Smith paid$100 to play. The collected money was handed to Young as a "thank you," Allen said, describingwhat appeared to be a gratuity.The notorious Coconut Road interchange earmark showed up in the 2005 highways bill, the hugefederal spending program engineered by Young when he chaired the House Transportation andInfrastructure Committee. The earmark wasn't in the bill when it passed Congress but was therewhen signed by President Bush. The $10 mil lion earmark was sought by a developer of Florida landwho arranged for a $40,000 fundraiser for Young.It has never been explained how the earmark document was changed. Congress referred thematter to the Justice Department.Young has never answered questions about the allegations, something his opponents in this year'select ion immediately pointed out Wednesday."A decision that there is a lack of evidence to prosecute Mr. Young is no t the same as bein g c lea re dof federal corruption," said Sheldon Fisher , a former telecommunications executive running againstYo un g in the Republican primary Aug. 24. "I call upon Mr. Young to releas e Department of Justicecorrespondence allegedly clearing him of federal corruption charges. Alaskans deserve to knowwhether he was cleared or whether the Department of Justice merely decided not to p ro se cu te inl ight of the embarrassment resul ting from prosecutorial misconduct in other tr ials involving VecoCorp."Fisher was referring to the collapse of the case against Sen. Ted Stevens after a jury foundStevens quilty of not reporting gif ts f rom Allen and Veco. Those prosecutors are now underinvestigation for fai ling to turn over to the defense evidence that Allen's story evolved over time."Young has r ef us ed to speak about these issues in the past due to the pending investigations, bu tnow it appears he is free to speak on such matters," Fisher said in a prepared statement. "I t istime for Mr. Youn g to respond to questions from Alaskans, the media, and fellow Republicansregarding how legislation from his Transportation Committee was unconstitutionally altered afterhad been passed by both the House and Senate to inser t the Coconut Road earmark."Alaska Rep. Harry Crawford, a Democrat hoping to succeed Young, called on him "to disclose to allAlaskans the full extent o f the charges under which he was being investigated."The chair of the Alaska Democratic Party, Patti Higgins, also noted that Y oung has left questionsunanswered."We deserve to know the full story of his involvement with Veco and his questionable behavior inFlorida," Higgins said. "And while the Department of Justice apparently has decided not toprosecute, this does not mean that his behavior was ethical."" ~ - - - - - " " ' - , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , - , - , , - , - , , - ~ - ~ ~ - - - - -

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Back to Original ArticleAlaska lawmaker is linked to corruption probeA courtjiling points to 'United States RepresentativeA' as a recipient of thousands ofdollars in gifts. The state has only one U.S.congressman -- Rep. Don Young.October 24, 2009 I Kim MurphySEATTLE - In documents filed this week in Alaska's long-running political corruption investigation, the government's lead witness said he had giventhousands ofdollars in gifts to "United States RepresentativeA"-- who could onlybe Republican Rep, Don Young.Bill Allen, a former oil services company executive, said he paid $10,000 to $15,000 a yearfrom 1993 to 2006 out ofVECO Corp.'s funds for therepresentative's annual fundraiser in Alaska. The lawmaker, who has not been chargedwith any wrongdoing, did not list any such payments on financialdisclosure forms,In a statement of stipulated facts that included a "confession ofadditional criminal activity," Allen said his co-defendant in the case, former VECOVicePresident Rick Smith, had purchased a $1,000 set ofgolf clubs with Allen's credit card and given them to the congressman.Testimony and evidence provided by Allen, who is scheduled tobe sentencedWednesday on his 2007 guilty pleas to conspiracy, bribery and tax charges, hashelped convict several Alaska state legislators and former Gov. Frank Murkowski's chief of staff on corruption charges stemming from influenceVECO wieldedover pending legislation on oil taxes and other matters affecting the industry.His testimonyalso helpedlead to the conviction of powerful Republican Sen. Ted Stevens on unreported gift-giving charges. Stevens' conviction was voided inApril after the Justice Department admitted serious prosecutorial misconduct. By that time the veteran senator already had lost his bid for reelection.Young, 76, has never been directly identified by federal officials as a target ofthe probe, and he consistently has refused to publiclyanswer questions about it.His spokeswoman, Meredith Kenny, on Friday declined to comment, and Young's lawyer did not return a phone call.On Friday, Young -- Alaska's only member of the House of Representatives -- waved off a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, which initially reported thenew court filing, "Don't bother me," he said.Since 2006, Allen has provided prosecutors with exhaustive details of his dealings with Alaskan lawmakers, sometimes secretlyrecording conversations withthem. He has argued that because of his cooperation, he shouldbe sentenced to no more than six months in prison and six months in home detention, with afine of $150,000.Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of about 46 months and a $750,000 fine. "The actions of BillAllen were corrupt, sustained and damaging to the integrity ofthe legislative process," the government argued in its sentencingmemorandum filed this week.The memo also stated thatAllen and Smith schemed to "corruptly influence and reward two federal public officials for official action beneficial to VECO" -- apossible reference to Young and Stevens, although neither was named.A spokesman for Allen's lawyer, Robert Bark Jr., said he could not comment on whether Allen was being asked to cooperate in an investigation against Young,saying that question should be asked offederal prosecutors.The House last year directed the Justice Department to look into a controversial earmarkYoung had attached to a 2005 highwaybill, steering $10 million tostudy building an interchange of Interstate 75 in Florida near land 0"11edby a major campaign donor and fundraiser for Young,

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Don Young, ex-chairman of the U.S. House Transportationand Infrastructure CommitteeWASHINGTON a" A Justice Department corruption taskforce is investigating whether Alaska Congressman DonYoung took campaign cash in return for securing $10 millionfor construction of a proposed Florida highway ramp thatwould give a windfall to a local real estate developer, a source familiar with the inquiry said Friday.

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The controversial funding, which was to pay for a study of a potential highway interchange abutting environmentallysensitive land, was slipped into a massive 2005 Transportation Department bill, congressional aides say.Young's action is among a number of congressional"earmarks" for specific pet projects drawing scrutiny from theJustice Department and an FBI team investigating alleged influence peddling on Capitol Hill, said the source, whoinsisted on anonymity.As the powerful chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee from 2000-06, Young addedearmarks worth tens of millions of dollars to transportation spending bills.Investigators' interest in the Florida earmark stems in part from its timing. In the two weeks before and after theearmark was inserted in the spending bill, Young's campaign and political-action committee collected contributionsfrom Florida developer Daniel Aronoff, his lobbyist and several other Florida business executives. The donations,mainly from real-estate interests, totaled more than $40,000.Meanwhile, transportation planners in Lee County, the Gulf Coast community where the interchange would belocated, voted Friday to ask Congress to let them use the money instead to widen Interstate 75. They said theynever had asked for the interchange money.Proving members of Congress traded legislative actions for campaign donations long has been a tall order, and itwas not clear whether investigators have established such a link in the Florida episode.Neither Young, an 18-term House member, nor his lawyers responded to requests for comment.But the veteran congressman always has maintained that he earmarked the money for the Coconut Roadinterchange near Fort Myers because residents told him they wanted it in 2005 when he attended a communitytransportation meeting.If the community doesn't want it, Young thinks they're free to give the money back, said the congressman's chiefof staff, Mike Anderson.

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"There's nothing nefarious here," Anderson said. "If they want to return the money back to [the Department ofTransportation], they can do that."Local transportation planners voted Friday to do that. They instead want the money to go toward the overallwidening of 1-75, said Carla Brooks Johnston, who leads Lee County's Metropolitan Planning Organization.Johnston commissioned a researcher to trace how the appropriation was designated and whether the county coulduse it for another purpose.The researcher found Young or one of his aides changed language in the earmark after Congress had voted on it,erasing 1-75and adding the words "Coconut Road," Johnston said."At a time when the highway needs are growing enormously and our highway funds are shrinking rapidly, peopleare bothered by this," she said.Anderson offered no explanation for the late change in the earmark's language.Information in this article, originally published August 19,2007, was corrected August 20,2007. Because of acomputer problem, the first nine words of the story were dropped. The story should have read as follows: "AJustice Department corruption task force is investigating whether Alaska Congressman Don Young took campaigncash in return for securing $10 million for construction of a proposed Florida highway ramp that would give awindfall to a local real estate developer, a source familiar with the inquiry said Friday." Because the first ninewords were missing, the story erroneously quoted the source as saying Young had taken the cash. In fact, thetask force is trying to determine whether or not that allegation is true.Copyright The Seattle Times Company

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Earmarks are requests to fund special projects, usually in a lawmaker's home state or congressionaldistrict. They often are used for libraries, sewers and other infrastructure, and every five years a newhighway bill brings with it billions of dollars in new earmarks.The total number and dollar value of earmarks rose sharply in the final six years of Republican rule onCapitol Hill, becoming increasingly controversial as law enforcement authorities pursued severalcorruption cases centered on their use. Even as their numbers shrank last year, congressional earmarksaccounted for $18 billion in the federal budget.But lawmakers and aides on both sides of the aisle could not recall Congress ever asking for a criminalinvestigation of an earmark.The version of the highway bill approved by the House and Senate in the summer of 2005 mentionedonly "widening and improvements" for 1-75 in Collier and Lee counties in South Florida. After finalpassage of the measure, but before it was sent to the White House, that line item was altered to specifythat the money would go to "Coconut Rd. Interchange/Lee County."For months, no lawmaker stepped forward to say who had made the change."Somewhere along the way, something changed. Nobody knows for sure who did what," Sen. TomCoburn CR-Okla.), who fought Young's bridge project three years ago, said during yesterday's debate.Young's office accepted responsibility yesterday for the change, insisting that campaign contributionswere not the motive. Rather, presentations made by Florida Gulf Coast University officials and thedevelopers proved the case for the project, aides said.Kenny, Young's spokeswoman, said the lawmaker always intended for the earmark to designate moneyto the interchange project, not generic highway improvements. So committee aides altered the bill toreflect that after the House and Senate had approved it."There was an error in the bill and so it was corrected," she said.Young, who is facing his most difficult reelection campaign since he first won office in 1972, has seenhis name surface in connection with other investigations. One of his former aides at the transportationcommittee has pleaded guilty to accepting gifts from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. And a formerAlaska energy services corporate executive, who pleaded guilty last year to bribery, testified in criminaltrials that part of his job was to hold annual fundraisers for Young.Mack has disavowed any association with the earmark request, and the Florida congressional delegationhas worked to place language in "technical corrections" to the highway bill that would allow Lee Countyto spend the $10 million on general improvements.The corrections bill is moving through the Senate this week, but Coburn said that is not enough. He isasking for a special House-Senate task force to investigate the origin of the earmark and how it wasaltered without congressional approval, which could lead to a criminal referral to the Justice Department."We ought to be able to investigate ourselves," he said.However, Boxer and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid CD-Nev.) have suggested that constitutional

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separation-of-powers issues would make it difficult for a Senate investigation of an action in the House.Instead, they have pushed for a resolution asking the Justice Department to investigate.A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.View all comments that have been posted about this article.

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