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Article: The Stevens Case; Its shocking reversal says more about the Justice Department than about the former senator.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 2, 2009
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TED STEVENS should be jumping for joy. The Justice Department
yesterday announced that it would ask a judge to dismiss the
conviction of the former Alaska Republican senator, who was tried
last year on charges of failing to report hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of gifts from an Alaska oil services firm and its
former chief executive, among others. The government also announced
that it would not seek to retry Mr. Stevens, 85, who lost a
reelection bid last November.
Yet this extraordinary reversal cannot erase or forgive the ugly
behavior that gave rise to the indictment in the first place. Trial
records and testimony painted a picture of a man so consumed with
his own sense of ...