October 21, 2011
A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott to time served in prison, three years of supervised release and a $10,000 fine just days after he pled guilty to accepting $400,000 in bribes from an oil company.
October 06, 2011
An Alaska federal judge ruled Wednesday that a former state House of Representatives speaker who allegedly took $400,000 in bribes from an oil company will have to face retrial despite prosecutors' use of an alleged pedophile's testimony.
August 11, 2011
The former Alaska House of Representatives speaker who allegedly took bribes from an oil company asked a federal judge on Wednesday to throw out the case, saying prosecutors helped an alleged pedophile in exchange for his testimony.
July 28, 2011
Prosecutors in the corruption retrial of former Alaska House of Representatives Speaker Pete Kott on Wednesday told an Alaska federal judge that the politician, accused of taking $400,000 in bribes, should not be granted a venue change for an out-of-state trial.
June 10, 2011
Prosecutors asked an Alaska federal court on Thursday to deny former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott's revived bid for a second court-appointed attorney to defend him in his corruption retrial, saying the case is not complex enough to warrant two publicly funded lawyers.
March 14, 2011
Prosecutors on Friday reportedly agreed to drop felony corruption charges against a former Alaska state legislator under indictment for extortion, fraud and bribery in exchange for his guilty plea on a misdemeanor count of working with unregistered lobbyists.