Remember Ted Stevens, the idiot poor misguided old fart that was in charge of regulating the internet but couldn’t really figure out how it worked?

You may also remember him as the dick sadly out of touch senator from alaska that tried to introduce legislation to kill the Cape Wind Project. Turns out he just got charged with seven counts of corruption…go figure, a moron who is implicated in shady back room dealings to stop a perfectly good project also guilty of corruption, well bless my nippers who woulda thunk it!

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on charges of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts he received.

Stevens, 84, was charged with seven counts of making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms from 1999 to 2006 about gifts and renovations on his house.

Stevens’s indictment boosts Democratic chances of winning an Alaska Senate seat for the first time in almost three decades, if he remains a candidate. “If Stevens is on the ballot I would expect Democrats to win the seat,” said Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political Report.

Stevens “knowingly and willfully engaged in a scheme to conceal” his receipt of “hundreds of thousands of dollars” of gifts from Veco Corp., an oil-field engineering firm, and its chief executive officer, the indictment said. (via)

So it seems he was on the the take from a big oil giant…I am sure this has nothing to do with why he tried to stop Cape Wind…nothing at all.