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Senator Murkowski Behind in Republican Primary; Voters Reject GOP Corruption?

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 10:21

Murkowski photoAlaska Senator Lisa Murkowski appears to be slightly behind Joe Miller, her primary challenger. AP reports that 16,000 absentee ballots were cast and will not be counted until August 31, so the winner may not be known for some time.

NLPC has been a critic of Murkowski and her relationship with associates of corrupt Alaska Republicans like the late Ted Stevens. On July 26, 2007 Murkowski announced that she would sell back an undeveloped piece of land that she purchased in 2006, one day after NLPC filed a Complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging a “sweetheart deal.”

Rep. Gregory Meeks Attacks the Wrong Peter Flaherty

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 18:35

Meeks photoIn today’s Queens Chronicle, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) attacked NLPC as “a right-wing, inside-the-Beltway organization with an explicitly stated partisan agenda.” As evidence, Meeks claimed that I  “served as a top advisor to Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign.” The only problem is that Meeks got the wrong Peter Flaherty.

Maybe Meeks should learn how to aim before he fires. Or at least learn how to use Google. The Peter Flaherty who advised Romney is a principal in the Shawmut Group in Boston. He is a former assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County, and served as Vice-President of Walden Media, a film production studio. Flaherty worked as a senior advisor to Mitt Romney while he was governor, and held a senior position in his 2008 presidential campaign. He is also credited with helping to engineer Scott Brown's upset Senate win this year.

VECO Paid for Porker Don Young’s Pig Roasts

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 16:44

pig roastFor the first time, earmark champion Rep. Don Young (R-AK) has been linked to criminal activity by the government. It came in a memo filed last week in the sentencing of former VECO CEO Bill Allen, the central figure in the corruption probe that ensnared former Senator Ted Stevens.

In May, we expressed concern that the overturning of Stevens’ conviction — and Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to retry him — endangered the prosecution of Young and other corrupt Alaska politicians.

Is Alaska Corruption Investigation Still Alive?

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 17:10

Don Young photoThat’s the question asked today by Richard Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News in the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision last month to drop the prosecution of former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). The newspaper asked NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm and other experts whether the prosecutorial misconduct in the Stevens case should taint the related investigations of Rep. Don Young (R-AK), whose photo is at right, and Steven’s son Ben, former president of the Alaska state Senate.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

"I can see they're a little singed around the edges, but at the same time, they all take the oath to pursue the evidence of crime wherever it leads, and they do have a duty to the public to the degree that there's people out there that are selling their office in one way or another -- they owe it to the public to follow up," Boehm said.

Dropping Ted Stevens Case Is a 'Miscarriage of Justice'

Submitted by NLPC Staff on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 16:15

Stevens photoIn a Talk Radio News Service interview today, NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm criticized Attorney General Eric Holder for tossing the corruption charges against former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). Boehm called the move a “miscarriage of justice.”

Rerun Election Funds Still Up in the Air

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 07/27/1998 - 00:00

In the hour-by-hour saga over how the Teamsters' rerun election will be funded, the latest twist on Jul. 23 came from Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK). Stevens, over Subcommittee Chairman Judd Gregg's (R-NH) objections, endorsed a Justice Department proposal, called by some "the least lousy choice," that has the taxpayers paying about half of the $8.6 million estimated rerun costs. This comes after the U.S. District Judge David N. Edelstein's multiple deadlines for Justice to secure funding have passed, and after the Teamsters, emboldened by a favorable U.S. Appeals Court ruling, have said they will contribute no more than $1 million towards the rerun. If there is no resolution, Edelstein has no choice but to allow the Teamster to conduct an unsupervised election. This entire sad situation is due to Ron Carey's 1996 campaign's $538,100 money-laundering schemes. [BNA Daily Labor Report 07/24/98]

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