The state's lone congressman, Don Young, a Republican, is being scrutinised by the FBI for links to an Alaskan company whose two top executives bribed state legislators.
The case, which involved allegations of a scheme in which casino operators and lobbyists bribed state lawmakers for favorable votes on a gambling bill, was unquestionably a complicated one.
After one of those kings bribed state lawmakers to back him as senator, the state banned corporate political spending.
This whole charade is a veiled attempt to bribe states that aid in dismantling teacher jobs and unions.
To bribe states into accepting caps on federal contributions to Medicaid, the health-care system of the poor, he is offering larger up-front initial payments.
They have tried to bribe states by promising them more delegates (and thus a bigger say in the nomination process) if they hold their elections later, and have threatened to deprive them of delegates if they insist on moving.
Newt's so-called "plan" was merely a re-tread of these failed, dirty, and dangerous energy ideas: offshore drilling, oil shale, Arctic drilling, tax breaks for Big Oil, bribing states to allow more drilling, eviscerating environmental regulations, "green" coal (yes, he really calls it that!), nukes, and other such nonsense.
Today, a Beijing court declared Mr. Fong guilty of "illegally obtaining state secrets and bribing state workers," the New China News Agency reported.
In recent months, the F.B.I. has investigated his ties to an Alaska supporter who has pleaded guilty to bribing state lawmakers.
Despite the convictions in 2006 of ministry officials, including a former minister, for misusing hajj funds and bribing state auditors to validate the ministry's accounts, anti-corruption advocates say that little has changed.
