In Alaska Senator’s Trial, Story of Oil and Politics
Sep 22nd, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: United StatesThe New York Times: Ted Stevens and Bill Allen, who will soon confront each other in a federal courtroom here, were once friends of sorts, thrown together at Alaska’s busy intersection of politics and oil money.
For decades, each man played a different but essential role in the story of the state’s transformation from a remote frontier into an economic bonanza.