This sounds like bad news for Begich - but it is good news for those who believe in the power of prayer.
Politicoreports that
Prosecutors disclosed this morning that they hadn't given defense lawyers exculpatory information from an FBI interview with Bill Allen, the Justice Department's star witness in the case. Allen, the former CEO of Veco Corp., an Alaska oil services company, has testified that his former company, with Stevens' knowledge, paid more than $180,000 to cover the costs of renovating Stevens' home in Girdwood, Alaska. DOJ alleges that Stevens did not report the gifts from Allen, Veco and others on his annual financial disclosure reports. Stevens has denied the charges.
Allen reportedly told an FBI agent that Stevens would have paid the full cost of the renovations if he had known about it, information that prosecutors did not share with Stevens' attorneys until near midnight on Wednesday.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy - one who believes in prayer in the home, on the tubes and in public schools.
I am grateful for all the protections that our court system provides in order to ensure the principle that it is better that the guilty should go free than the innocent suffer. There's no one guiltier than Ted; so this is not just judicial, there has been some divine intervention here.
I mean, how else can you look at the guy's gutsy decision to run for Senate, to call for an early trial trusting that God would protect him, and then miraculously find the key witness (who was the contractor for the guy allegedly bribing the Senator) turn hostile ...
Goes to show that this does not only happen in New Jersey to guys with names like Soprano, but the power of God can save you in faraway Alaska as it can in Newark, NJ.
Begich, you can start praying now.
(Watch the snark tag, y'all.)