Contracts, ties to Stevens probedThe FBI is investigating the National Science Foundation’s award of $170 million in contracts to the oil-field-services company that oversaw renovations on Sen. Ted Stevens’ home, an NSF spokesman said Wednesday. Veco won a five-year NSF contract in 1999 to provide logistics and support for polar research, although it had no previous experience in that field. During the same time period, Veco’s top executive managed renovations that doubled the size of the longtime Republican senator’s Girdwood, Alaska, home — the scene of a July 30 FBI search. |
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