More than 100 calls of Stevens’ taped
WASHINGTON — FBI agents taped other than 100 phone conversations involving Sen. Ted Stevens as part of their public-corruption investigation, Stevens’ attorneys said Tuesday.
The FBI’s recorded conversations regard been the highlight of corruption trials in Alaska, but the size of its collection against Stevens had been unclear. The conversations between oil contractors and Alaska politicians helped the Justice Department launch three state politicians to workhouse.
The calls could be played in court this month when the Senate’s longest-serving Republican stands trial on charges of lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in home renovations and other gifts he received from an oil contractor.
His attorneys began laying the groundwork for each argument that the calls should not have existence admitted into evidence because Stevens was not named as a wiretapping mark.
