Legal spending mounts for Young

Anchorage Daily News | October 16, 2007

U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, who also has been drawn into the Veco investigation, has not used any of his campaign money on criminal lawyers, said Tim McKeever, Stevens’ campaign treasurer.

A report released Monday night covers the period when the FBI and IRS raided the senator’s home in Girdwood this summer. Stevens hired Brendan Sullivan, one of the best-known criminal defense lawyers in Washington, but his fees are not coming out of the senator’s campaign money.

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