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Ted's connections with: Alaska Fisheries Marketing BoardEarmarksCitizens Against Government Waste has chronicled Ted Stevens’ egregious earmarks over the years. Duane GibsonDuane Gibson is a former top aide to Sen. Ted Stevens (and was also a top aide to Don Young). Gibson was senior counsel when he left Don Young’s office in the summer of 2002 to join Jack Abramoff at the lobbying firm of Greenberg Traurig. Ben StevensBen Stevens was born in 1959 and was appointed to the Alaska State Senate by former Gov. Tony Knowles in 2001. In 2005, he served as the Alaska State Senate President. Art NelsonArt Nelson, Don Young’s son-in-law, is a player in Alaska politics. Nelson is director of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which received $80,000 from the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board created through one of Ted Stevens’s appropriations bills in 2003. Trevor McCabeTrevor McCabe was a long-term aide and legislative director for Sen. Ted Stevens from 1991-1999. When he worked for Stevens, he exercised great influence in privatizing public fish stocks. McCabe was the chief political broker for the 1998 American Fisheries Act, which privatized valuable pollock resource in the Bering Sea, giving 40% of the entire pollock allocation to 19 specific private corporations, large factory trawlers who belong to the At-Sea Processors Association. |
 
Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board Private Industry Groups & Firms 
Sen. Stevens got $2.7 million for pal’s road October 25, 2008 Stevens Took Campaign Contributions From Saddam Hussein Lobbyist October 15, 2008 NBC News covers Stevens trial and the Senate race September 26, 2008 When It Comes To The Wall Street Mess, Stevens Is Part Of The Problem In rare exchange with reporters, Palin avoids endorsing Sen. Ted Stevens’ political future September 25, 2008 
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