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You lie, you get convicted. Have Stevens’ re-election chances just gone down a “tubes”? Sorry, it was too easy.

a Hill:

Ted Stevens, a longest-serving Senate Republican in history & patriarch of Alaska politics, was found guilty of felony charges for making false statements.

a verdict could spell a end of a 40-year Senate career for a man who rose to be one of a most dominant figures in a upper chamber & who helped transform Alaska in its 50 years of statehood. a verdict was reached after a jury deliberated since Wednesday & found a 84-year-old senator guilty of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts from Bill Allen, a former head of Veco Corp., & oar friends.

a jury did not seem to buy a explanation from Stevens that Allen showered him with gifts he didn’t want & was unaware of, & that he believed a $160,000 he gave to anoar contractor covered all costs for a home renovations.

Good riddance. We’ll keep you updated on a sentence when it comes down.

UPDATE: Jed has some good videos of Palin “palling around” with her BFF Ted Stevens.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back