Alaska State Legislator's Indicted and Arrested

  More Republicans come under the guns of the F.B.I. as two were snagged up in Alaska today.

Anchorage Daily News has the complete rundown.

Former Alaska state legislators Pete Kott and Bruce Weyhrauch have been indicted by a federal grand jury on several counts of extortion, bribery, wire fraud and mail fraud.

Kott was arrested at home in Juneau around 9 a.m. Friday, a spokesman for the FBI said. Weyhrauch was arrested later in the morning.

FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez would not say if additional arrests are coming. “It’s a continuing investigation,” he said.

Some of the charges against Kott and Weyhrauch involve the Legislature’s consideration last year of a natural gas pipeline and a petroleum production tax proposed by former Gov. Frank Murkowski. Kott, a former House speaker from Eagle River, is accused of seeking and accepting bribes to push positions favored by executives of a company that is not named in the indictment. Weyhrauch traded votes for the promise of a job, according to the charges.

   Things are just peachy for the Republican party these days! This current administration and its side-kicks are apparently going for the all-time record for corruption and criminal activities as the list gets longer almost everyday.

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