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Stevens to Continue Receiving Pension Payments Despite Conviction
KTUU
November 10, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Although a jury convicted him on seven felony counts, Sen. Ted Stevens will get to keep his taxpayer-funded pension.
Stevens' pension amounts to $122,000 per year, and he'll keep it despite a law passed by Congress last year prohibiting federal pension payments to certain felons.
But because Stevens' crimes were committed before the law's enactment, it doesn't apply to him. Even it did, Stevens' felonies aren't among the 10 the pension-stripping legislation specifically identifies.
A group called the National Taxpayers Union says Stevens' criminal case is the first test of the new legislation, and is calling for loopholes in the bill to be closed.
