John Cowdery, the latest Act in the FBI Indictment Circus!!!!!

According to Kyle Hopkins at Alaska Politics:

Reporter Lisa Demer summarizes:

According to the 16-page indictment, Cowdery and others conspired to give another state senator $25,000, characterized as campaign contribution, to do the bidding of an oil field services company. While not named in the indictment, court papers filed in other cases identify the company as Veco. Veco chief executive Bill Allen and vice president Rick Smith have pleaded guilty to bribing legislators, including Cowdery, to push through a version of an oil tax favored by North Slope producers.

The link is HERE for the 16-page indictment:

...the defendant, JOHN COWDERY, an elected public official of the Alaska State Legislature, together with COMPANY CEO, COMPANY VP, STATE SENATOR B, and others both known and unknown to the grand jury, did knowingly and unlawfully conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other:

a. to corruptly give, offer, and agree to give anything of value to any person with the intent to influence or reward State Senator A, an agent of an entity, the State of Alaska, that received more than $10,000 in federal funding during the calendar year 2006, in connection with any business, transaction or series of transactions of$5,000 or more of the State of Alaska, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(2); and

b. to obstruct, delay, and affect in any way and degree commerce and the movement of any article and commodity in commerce by extortion, that is, to unlawfully obtain or attempt to obtain under color of official right money or other property from COMPANY A,COMPANY CEO, and COMPANY VP with their consent for State Senator A not due State Senator A or his office in agreement for the performance of official acts, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a).

Who's next?