[net-gold] Ted Stevens, Longest-Serving GOP Senator
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- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:43:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Ted Stevens, Longest-Serving GOP Senator
Ex-Lawmaker in Alaska Plane Crash; Held Seat for 40 Years
Before Corruption Charges Toppled Career
Aug. 10, 2010
Associated Press
CBS News
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/10/national/main6760221.shtml>
(CBS/ AP) There were conflicting reports on whether Ted Stevens, the
longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history who lost his seat after
a corruption conviction that was later dismissed, was killed Tuesday in a
small plane crash in Alaska. He was 86.
A family friend said Stevens was among five people killed in the crash in
southwest Alaska. The same friend said later the death had not been
confirmed.
In 1978, Stevens survived a Learjet crash in Anchorage that killed five
people, including his first wife.
Over the years, Stevens became a political legend in Alaska.
Affectionately nicknamed "Uncle Ted," he was named "Alaskan of the
Century" in 2000 by the state legislature and the airport in Anchorage
bears his name. Thanks to Stevens' long tenure and clout on Capitol Hill,
Alaska earned substantial influence in national politics well beyond its
small population.
However, Stevens was also known for his fiery temper, the career-ending
corruption trial and championing the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," a $400
million pork transportation project designed to link two remote islands.
Rescuers arrive to help Alaska plane crash victims
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Writer 2010
The Associated Press
Aug. 10, 2010, 12:23PM
Houston Chronicle
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7147258.html>
JUNEAU, Alaska A plane carrying nine people crashed amid southwest
Alaska's remote mountains and lakes, killing five people on board,
authorities said Tuesday. Former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean
O'Keefe were believed to be aboard.
It was unclear if the longtime Republican senator and O'Keefe were among
the dead.
Rescuers arrived on helicopter early Tuesday and were giving medical care
to survivors, Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Guy Hayes said. He
offered no additional details, except that there were potential
fatalities.
Alaska officials reported that nine people were aboard the aircraft and
that "it appears that there are five fatalities," NTSB spokesman Ted
Lopatkiewicz told The Associated Press in Washington.
A U.S. government official told the AP that Alaska authorities have been
told that the 86-year-old Stevens, a former longtime Republican senator,
was on the plane. The official, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, says
Stevens' condition is unknown.
The federal official declined to be publicly identified because the crash
response and investigation are under way.
NTSB statement on crash near Dillingham
Anchorage Daily News / adn.com
Published: August 10th, 2010 07:02 AM
Last Modified: August 10th, 2010 07:02 AM
<http://www.adn.com/2010/08/10/1403287/
ntsb-statement-on-crash-near-dillingham.html#ixzz0wE3YXHMK>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/27n83pm>
NTSB LAUNCHES TEAM TO INVESTIGATE AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT IN ALASKA
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched a Go Team to
investigate last night's airplane crash near Dillingham, Alaska.
At about 8:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time, a DeHavilland DHC-3T (N455A)
crashed 10 miles northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. Reports are that 5 of the
9 persons on board died in the accident.
<snip>
Alaska has had long love affair with Ted Stevens
By Jim Kavanagh
CNN
August 10, 2010 1:28 p.m. EDT
<http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/stevens.bio/>
(CNN) -- Aviation has given and aviation has taken away throughout Ted
Stevens' adult life.
The former U.S. senator, who was reported to be aboard a plane that
crashed Monday night near Dillingham, Alaska, was a decorated Army Air
Corps pilot during World War II, and the international airport in
Anchorage, Alaska, was renamed in his honor in 2000.
Stevens survived the crash of a Learjet at that airport in 1978, but his
first wife, Ann, and four other people perished. He remarried in 1980.
Often re-elected to the Senate by margins approaching 80 percent, Stevens
served 40 years and 10 days and was the longest-serving Republican senator
in U.S. history. (Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was a Democrat for
part of his 47-year tenure.)
Stevens earned the nickname "Uncle Ted" and a reputation as one of the
most effective of all pork-barrel lawmakers, a senator who funneled
billions of federal dollars to his home state.
Stevens' Senate career ended in 2008 when he lost his bid for re-election,
done in by a conviction in federal court days before the election. A
federal judge set aside the conviction the following April, citing
prosecutorial misconduct.
Stevens was convicted of seven counts of making false statements on Senate
financial disclosure forms. The jury found Stevens failed to report about
$250,000 in gifts and renovations to his house in Alaska between 1999 and
2006, paid for by the head of a large oil-services company.
However, the Justice Department later acknowledged that Stevens' attorneys
were not given access to notes from an interview with the government's key
witness against Stevens. The notes show that responses given by the
witness, oil industry executive Bill Allen, were inconsistent with
testimony he made in court.
<snip>
Despite the legal victory, Stevens was 85 years old and his seemingly
unstoppable political career was over.
Alaska's Stevens Believed in Crash With Ex-NASA Head O'Keefe
By Jeff Bliss and Amanda Coyne -
Aug 10, 2010 1:20 PM ET
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/former-senator-
ted-stevens-was-aboard-alaska-plane-involved-in-fatal-crash.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/22vqygc>
Former National Aeronautics and Space Administration head Sean OKeefe was
also aboard the plane, said a spokesman for European Aeronautic, Defence &
Space Co.
The condition of OKeefe, 54, chief executive officer of EADS North
America, wasnt immediately known, said EADS spokesman Tim Paynter.
Rescue Effort
Rescuers from the Alaska National Guards 212th and 210th Rescue Squadrons
were on the scene, National Guard spokeswoman Kalei Brooks said. The Coast
Guard said that four of nine people aboard the aircraft had survived the
crash.
The DeHavilland DHC-3T plane crashed at about 8 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time
last night northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska, according to a National
Transportation Safety Board statement.
General Communication Inc., the Alaskan telecommunications provider, owns
the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Spokespeople
for Anchorage, Alaska-based GCI didnt immediately return phone calls and
e-mails seeking comment.
The NTSB said the plane carried nine people and the agency had reports
that five had died. Four survivors of the crash were confirmed, Coast
Guard Commander Laura Dickey, the Coast Guards Senate liaison, wrote in an
e-mail obtained today.
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