McCain rejects Stevens’ donation

Associated Press | August 6, 2008

by The Associated Press
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008

SOMERSET, Pa. — John McCain’s campaign spokesman says the Republican presidential candidate will donate $5,000 that the campaign received from indicted U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens’ political action committee to the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The spokesman says the Arizona senator’s campaign received a contribution in April from Stevens’ Northern Light PAC.

Stevens was indicted last month on felony charges of concealing more than a quarter-million dollars in gifts and services from an oil company that helped renovate his home in Alaska.

A $58 million memorial is planned in the southwestern Pennsylvania field where the hijacked United Airlines airplane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, killing all 40 passengers and crew.

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