Energy
Sarah Palin totally sold out
Come on you guys this was already noted…
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…it's time she addressed her association with the convicted oilman who helped the Feds nail U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens earlier this week. Palin touts herself as a maverick, a reformer, somebody who's "going to shake things up in Washington." She says she's "walked the talk." So why did she split a bottle of wine with a corrupt oil contractor and then accept $5,000 in campaign contributions from him and his executiv energy, yes? (A Palin spokesman just said she "does not recall" sipping wine with Big Bill Allen, but our source stands by his story.)
Bill Allen and his employees at VECO Corp., an Alaska oil contractor now owned by a Denver-based firm, provided Palin 10 percent of all campaign contributions she received during her unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002. Last year, Allen pleaded guilty to bribing state lawmakers and has emerged a central figure in the biggest oil-political corruption scandal in state history. He testified as a federal witness against Stevens a few weeks ago, admitting that he picked up much of the costs on an expansive remodeling of the senator's house in 2000.
https://www.adn.com/politics/article/why-wont-palin-explain-her-association-convicted-felon-bill-allen/2008/10/30/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/us/bill-j-allen-dead.html
Bill J. Allen, an itinerant pipe fitter who rose to be one of the most powerful men in Alaska and a dominant figure in the state’s oil industry, then fell from grace in a spectacular bribery and corruption scheme that also took down a U.S. senator, died on June 29. He was 85.
He was one of the state’s most powerful figures, but his extensive corruption schemes brought him down — and took several politicians with him.