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Ex-Oil Executive Gets 3 Years In Jail In Alaska Corruption Case

Brent Kendall The Wall Street Journal 10/29/2009 01:42
Bill Allen

Bill Allen


A former oil-services executive who was the federal government's star witness in several Alaska political corruption cases, including the controversial prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison and fined $750,000 for bribing public officials.



Bill Allen, the former head of Veco Corp., a once-powerful Alaska oil-services company, pleaded guilty in 2007 to bribery and conspiracy charges but his sentencing had been delayed while he cooperated in the prosecution of Stevens and other public officials.

Prosecutors didn't charge Stevens, then a leading Republican in the Senate, with accepting bribes, but alleged that he received more than $250,000 in gifts from Allen and never reported them on Senate disclosure forms.

A jury convicted Stevens in October 2008, but Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed the charges in April amid revelations that prosecutors failed to turn over evidence favorable to Stevens's defense, including evidence that contradicted Allen's trial testimony.


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