Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Don't forget that his convictions were thrown out and the Justice Department was severely reprimanded because they basically fabricated and manipulated key evidence in their zeal to make a high-profile (ie career-enhancing) case.
Does that make him innocent? Not necessarily, but 'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If the feds had to frame him to make it stick, he might not be such a bad guy after all.
Tom Schatz, president of Citizen's Against Government Waste remarked when Mr. Stevens left the Senate. “While his friend Senator Robert Byrd was called ‘the king of pork,’ Ted Stevens was the emperor of earmarks. Since we started counting in 1991, Senator Stevens has accumulated 1,452 projects worth $3.4 billion. That is a record amount.”