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Senator Stevens Indicted

The Senate Commerce Committee vice chairman faces indictment for allegedly lying about significant gifts from an Alaska-based energy company.

BySheril Kirshenbaum
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The vice chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee has been indicted 'on charges he lied about receiving gifts worth more than $250,000 from an Alaska-based energy company on whose behalf he intervened in Washington.' More at CNN...

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