Ted Stevens in Wikipedia.org political website

On Principles & Values: Under investigation by IRS; home searched by FBI in 2007

Stevens is currently under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption based on his relationship with an oil service company executive who has pled guilty to bribing Alaskan legislators, including Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. On July 30, 2007, the IRS and the FBI searched Stevens' home in Alaska.

On May 29, 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that the FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens' home in Girdwood. The remodeling work, which more than doubled the size of the modest home, was organized by VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company that has long been a strong lobbying presence in Juneau. Earlier in May, two top Veco executives pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges. Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in response to the investigation.

Source: Wikipedia.com article, "Ted Stevens" Jul 2, 2008

On Technology: The internet is like a series of tubes

"Series of tubes" is an analogy used by Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor, which, along with several other odd choices of words, was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens' poor understanding of the Internet. [His Senate speech:]

Ten movies streaming across that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff on Friday, I got it Tuesday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.

Source: Wikipedia.com article, "Series of tubes" Jun 28, 2006

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