So, Stevens is still fighting the conviction he voluntarily plead guilty to when he thought he could keep it quiet.

This is yet another attempt by Stevens to use a technicality to get out of his plea. Funny really from a law and order family values republican.

His last run at voiding the prosecution was based on him submitting his pleas by mail even though Stevens asked to do so himself.

What a weasel...with apologizes to all weasels...

Stevens asks for conviction to be dismissed

By JESSE J. HOLLAND – 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday called for his conviction on corruption charges to be thrown out after an FBI agent bitterly complained about some Justice Department tactics during the trial, including not turning over evidence and an "inappropriate relationship" between a government representative and the prosecutor's star witness.

"A whistleblower complaint submitted by a special agent with the FBI now confirms what the defense has long believed and alleged: the government cheated and lied in order to obtain a verdict against Sen. Ted Stevens," Stevens lawyer Robert Cary said in court papers.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is expected to hold a hearing in early January on some of Stevens' charges against the Justice Department team that convicted him.

"We will continue to litigate in the court all matters, including these allegations, related to the jury's conviction of Senator Ted Stevens," Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said.

The Senate's longest serving Republican was convicted in November on seven counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure documents to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations from Alaska millionaire Bill Allen.

Stevens lost his Senate seat after the conviction.

In a heavily redacted letter, an FBI agent whose name has been blacked out complained bitterly about prosecution tactics during the investigation and conviction of Stevens, including someone's inappropriate relationship with Allen, who testified against the senator.

Someone connected with the prosecution met with Allen in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., with the FBI agent telling them not to do it again. The person "ignored me," the agent said.

A person also "wore" something for Allen during his testimony against Stevens, with the person saying "it was a surprise/present for Allen," the agent said.

The FBI agent, who said in the document that they have requested protection from retaliation, also said there may be evidence that was never revealed during the trial. "There is a large amount of records currently in the Squad 4/5 conference room that the FBI has had in its custody for some time that do not appear to be entered into evidence," the agent said.

The FBI also did not tell a judge about some of the searches it did, the agent said.

The agent discovered an "affidavit (that) did not reference the fact that the FBI had performed one or more searches," the agent said. Someone connected with the prosecution told the agent "not to worry about it, that it was too late to change it, and that it was irrelevant and would not have changed the fact the judge signed the affidavit," the agent said.

A government representative also "accepted multiple things of value from sources," "had inappropriate relationships/communication with members of the media," purposefully sent a witness back to Alaska even though he had been subpoenaed by Stevens, did not turn over to the judge and defense evidence which was then used at trial, and tried to hide information from Stevens's lawyers, the agent said.

"There was many serious problems I encountered in the recent trial of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens that frustrated me," the FBI agent said.

Given all that, Sullivan should either throw the conviction out or give Stevens a new trial, Cary said.

"It is now clear that the government's prosecution of Sen. Stevens lacked integrity," Cary said. "A federal election has been irreversibly affected. It is too late to change that. But it is not too late to impose a sanction that lets the government know that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated in the future."

that sentence kinda made me uncomfortable

It made you uncomfortable that he voluntarily plead guilty?

What part of it made you uncomfortable?

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If anyone on this board had a sense of humor I might have included a humorous question like, "Did he step on your toe" but this board obviously has no room for humor.

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Waiting for the incoming ban even though I intended no personal insult. The set up was simply too good to ignore

oh oh...was it my sloppy approach and writing?

Hells bells...I was just trying to fit in around here.

nahh, not that. the part about "keeping it quiet"

Clearly Stevens should be executed for treason. I can not imagine a worse crime than a guy trying to have sex with another guy.

From http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/09/mcconnell_craig_case_clearly_d.html

See..."in hopes of keeping the case quiet."

Referring to Vitter, McConnell said that no criminal charges had been brought against the first-term senator and his admitted involvement with a prostitute took place more than three years ago "before this individual came to the Senate,
Craig, however, has maintained that he "over reacted" in pleading guilty to charges brought by an undercover airport police officer operating a gay-sex sting, in hopes of keeping the case quiet. He said he was worried because his hometown newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, was conducting an investigation into past complaints about his sexual conduct at the time. He maintains his innocence and has hired a legal team to try overturning his own guilty plea.

McConnell doesn't believe that effort will be successful. He declined to say whether he believes Craig when he said he was not gay and was not soliciting sex in the restroom when he was arrested June 11.

"I think the episode is over," McConnell said. "We will have a new senator from Idaho in the next month or so, and we're going to move on."