By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A murder mystery in Alaska has set the FBI off on a hunt. Reuters reports that FBI agents are trying to determine who fatally shot two U.S. Coast Guard employees last week at a communications station on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. “No arrests have been made in connection with the shootings,” FBI…
Michael Carey is the former editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News and the host of the weekly public affairs show “Alaska Edition” for Alaska Public Television. By Michael Carey Los Angeles Times ANCHORAGE — As his trial on corruption charges approached in the fall of 2008, Ted Stevens railed to me in an…
Brad Heath USA Today WASHINGTON – The federal government has spent nearly $1.8 million defending prosecutors from allegations they broke the law in the botched corruption case against former Alaska senator Ted Stevens, Justice Department records show. The case against Stevens fell apart three years ago when the Justice Department admitted its attorneys had improperly…
By Nedra Pickler Associated Press WASHINGTON – The special prosecutor who investigated the botched case against late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is not recommending criminal charges against any of the Justice Department attorneys who tried him despite finding widespread misconduct beyond what has yet been publicly revealed. The findings in a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Washington…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Army Times is reporting on an ongoing FBI investigation of an Alaska-stationed soldier on suspicion of espionage. Spc. William Colton Millay,22, a military cop, was taken into custody last Friday in the early morning hours, while the FBI and Army Counterintelligence continued to investigate, the paper reported. Lt. Col. Bill…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Put Sarah Palin into the equation, and you’re bound to get plenty attention. Just ask Christy, 47, and his 22-year-old son Shawn. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the FBI from the Allentown, Pa. office on Thursday arrested the two on charges of making hundreds of harassing calls to Palin’s family and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Stevens family has had its share of legal luck. The latest: The Anchorage Daily News reports that ex-Alaska state Senate President Ben Stevens, son of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, won’t be prosecuted in what the paper described as a “rapidly fading Alaska political corruption investigation.” The paper reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI on Friday released about 3,600 pages on the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, about 2,700 of which were from media reports. The files included complaints received by the FBI Anchorage office alleging “instances of Stevens being involved in corruption or other illegal activities” and Stevens accepting free…
