What's Ted's connection?

Trevor McCabe

Trevor 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. [The Senators' Sons, Los Angeles Times, 6/22/2003]

McCabe left the following year to become At-Sea’s executive director, a job he held until late 2003. [Deal Opens SeaLife Center, Seward Rift, Anchorage Daily News, 4/23/2006; The Senators' Sons, Los Angeles Times, 6/22/2003]

Ted then passed a law in 2001 that eliminated the sunset provisions of the American Fisheries Act, making permanent this giveaway of Alaska’s fish to his friends. [The Senators' Sons, Los Angeles Times, 6/22/2003]

Between 2002 and October 2005, Trevor McCabe and Ben Stevens co-owned the Anchorage consulting firm, Advance North LLC. [Judge Tosses Stevens’ Fine, Anchorage Daily News, 5/17/2008]
Working for Advance North LLC and lobbying Senator Stevens on behalf of the Southeast Alaska Seiners Association, McCabe helped secure a $50 million loan program. [In Corruption Probe, FBI Asks Whether Senator's son profited from fishing legislation, The Associated Press, 10/30/2007]

McCabe has served on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board (AFMB), created by a Ted Stevens’ earmark, since its inception in 2003. The AFMB has distributed millions of federal dollars from appropriations earmarked by Senator Ted Stevens to corporations with links to Ben and McCabe. [$10 Million To Promote State Seafood Nears Release, Anchorage Daily News, 10/11/2003; In Corruption Probe, FBI Asks Whether Senator’s Son Profited From Fishing Legislation, The Associated Press, 10/30/2007]

In December 2006, entities in the North Pacific fishing industry, were subpoenaed for documents relating to Ben Stevens and Trevor McCabe. [Subpoenas Blanket The Fishing Industry, Anchorage Daily News, 12/23/2006]

McCabe, along with Senator Ted Stevens, is also under scrutiny for a Seward land deal involving the Alaska SeaLife Center. The Anchorage Daily News reported that the SeaLife Center purchased McCabe’s Seward property with money earmarked by Stevens. Justice Department officials are now examining whether federal funds Stevens steered to the SeaLife Center improperly enriched McCabe. [Stevens Scrutiny Mounts; Interior Department Investigates SeaLife Center Appropriation, Anchorage Daily News, 8/1/2007; SeaLife Was Good Deal For Ex Aide To Stevens, Anchorage Daily News, 2/10/2008]

McCabe is part owner, along with Don Young’s son-in-law Art Nelson, of 60 acres of land on Point MacKenzie that would have opened up by the development of Congressman Don Young’s proposed bridge across the Knik Arm, also known as the ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’ [Young’s Earmark Boosts 3 Fish Firms, Anchorage Daily news, 11/25/2007]