Senator still running, vows to fight conviction
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska vowed to fight his conviction on federal corruption charges, a verdict he attributed to “repeated instances of prosecutorial misconduct.” The verdict came days before the Senate’s longest-serving Republican is to face voters in a neck-and-neck re-election bid. He vowed to get the trial’s results overturned and added, “I remain a candidate for the United States Senate.”
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