Former oil services company chairman sentenced to 3 years for bribing Alaska politiciansThe oil services executive at the center of a federal investigation of corruption in Alaska politics was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison and fined $750,000. Bill Allen, 72, testified on behalf of the government in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The businessman at the center of Alaska's wide-ranging political corruption investigation, once a pillar of the Alaska oil industry and state Republican party, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve three years in prison and to pay a $750,000 fine. Bill Allen, who built VECO Corp ...

Former VECO chief Bill Allen sentenced to 3 years for bribing Alaska politiciansThe businessman at the center of a federal investigation of corruption in Alaska politics has been sentenced to three years in prison. Bill Allen, former chief executive of VECO Corp., was sentenced Wednesday and fined $750,000 for ...