OCTOBER’S CORRUPT BASTARD: Ben Stevens, Alaska Senate President

October 31, 2006 on 4:44 pm | In Uncategorized | 2455 Comments

Congrats young Stevens!! You have been selected by our panel of expert judges as October’s Corrupt Bastard of the Month!! Your prize t-shirt is in the mail we hope you wear it with pride!

the C.B.C

Ben Stevens

October 21, 2006 on 3:56 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 7314 Comments
Ben Stevens
716 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 510
Anchorage, AK 99501

 
Hi I’m Ben Stevens a self-described “business consultant” who is also the president of the Alaska Senate. I’m into everything Alaskan-business from fish to oil. It sure is convenient that I sit on the Finance Committee for Natural Resources as well as on the Senate Committees for: Resources, Rules, and the joint committee for Legislative Budget and Audit. I’ll be set up for years! Oh yeah and in case you didn’t know my daddy is Ted Stevens so that helps too. In fact I don’t think I’ll be running for reelection (not because of my corruption scandals mind you) but to pursue more time with “my family”. Keep an eye out for me though, with my connections you’re sure to hear from (or at least about) me in the future! xoxo Ben S.
 
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6984518p-6885437c.html  

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/veco/story/8236307p-8132041c.html

http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0601/ted-stevens.php

Jerry Lewis

October 21, 2006 on 3:09 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 1641 Comments

Jerry Lewis
1150 Brookside Avenue, Suite J-5
Redlands, CA 92373

In business with Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, and a lesser known corrupt bastard (A.K.A powerful lobbyist) Bill Lowery while fattening his congressional district with america\’s tax dollars - he has to be a text book example. Trust me we will be hearing more about this man-pig even though he seems to have fired 60 investigators who were until last week auditing billions of dollars in government spending, probably because they were getting a little too close to some of this appropriations.


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-19-house-committee-shakeup_x.htm

Dennis Hastert

October 21, 2006 on 2:39 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 985 Comments

Dennis Hastert
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Hastert earmarked $207 million in federal dollars for the proposed Prairie Parkway through his home state which allowed him to make a cool 2 million from real estate sales for land which would otherwise be disconnected from a major highway. Oh yeah and he apparently \”doesn\’t recall\” being warned by his senior staff (or House Majority Leader John Boehner ) about a child predator in the house who had been harassing congressional pages - there\’s that too… What a bastard. What’s wrong with these people? How come they think they can get away with this?


http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060615/ai_n16497689

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093001265.html

http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=w061002&s=lillyornstein100606

Curt Weldon

October 21, 2006 on 2:03 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 3007 Comments

Curt Weldon
1554 Garrett Road
Upper Darby, PA 19082

He is using his influence as a 10 year congressman to secure lobbying contracts for his daughter - one of those being a 500,000 annual contract for Russian Energy firm Itera. Keep it in the family I suppose…


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_go_co/congressman_investigation_11

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-10212006-730213.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061021/ap_on_go_co/congressman_investigation_1

Susan Ralston

October 7, 2006 on 2:08 am | In Corrupt Bastards | 4321 Comments

Susan Ralston

Washington, DC

Another one of Abramhoffs bastards inside the whitehouse - I\’d include an address but it doesn\’t seem like she will be there much longer. C\’est la vie.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/pl_nm/abramoff_bush_dc;_ylt=AjxAzHQJk1i2KnxlA2j7R9us0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aE0LhYpBQFyQ&refer=us

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/nataffdaily/story/9130607/connecting_the_dots_abramoff_and_rove

Conrad Burns

October 1, 2006 on 5:19 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 3360 Comments
Conrad Burns
321 First Ave North
Great Falls, MT 59401
 
In 2003 Burns got the Interior Department to make a $3 million grant to a rich, Michigan-based tribal client of Abramoff’s; Burns also received $150,000 in contributions from Abramoff, his co-workers and his clients over the past five years. (Burns has since given those funds to charity.) In an April article in Vanity Fair, Abramoff said, “Every appropriation we wanted [from Burns\’ committee], we got … I mean, it’s a little difficult for him to run from that record.”
 
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183991,00.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/283070_joel30.html

Richard Shelby

October 1, 2006 on 4:18 pm | In Corrupt Bastards | 3231 Comments
Richard Shelby
110 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
 
Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama has steered at least $50 million over the past decade, including $10 million approved by the Senate yesterday, to military projects benefiting a company owned by one of his largest campaign contributors.
Apparently he also likes to keep his friends as Fox News up to date on classified information as well. Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally classifed information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby’s committee had been given the information in a classified briefing.
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ab27Rz5OHUZU&refer=home

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40886-2004Aug4.html

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