Oil Co. Planned Stevens' Home Renovation

The plan to renovate Sen. Ted Stevens’ Alaska home was formed by oil-company employees, participants tell the Anchorage Daily News. The renovation, central to allegations of corruptions against the indicted Republican, was supervised by a Veco employee and paid for by the company, investigators say. Stevens’ home gained a new first floor that made it one story taller.

"This is what I'm thinking—I want to expand Ted's house," Veco’s ex-CEO is said to have told another employee. "How can we do this?" Veco then proceeded to pay for contractors, construction crews, and landscaping, and even had a company-owned crane brought in to haul an electric generator onto Stevens’ property. (More Ted Stevens stories.)