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Jim Clark, Charges to be Dropped

published October 20, 2010

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Federal prosecutors told District Judge John Sedwick that the charge to which Clark pled guilty in 2008 is no longer a crime, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an unrelated case last summer.

As part of Clark's plea agreement, he had promised to testify against others involved in a bribery scheme under what was then VECO Corp. CEO Bill Allen sought support among state officials for lower oil taxes and a natural gas pipeline deal supported by Alaska's oil and natural gas leaseholders. Clark had pled guilty to soliciting money from VECO for Murkowski's re-election bid after Murkowski had successfully pushed through an industry-favored oil tax bill, and was attempting to get a natural gas deal.


According to the plea agreement, Clark worked with VECO executives to ''facilitate a scheme in which VECO would pay approximately $68,550 in expenses related to the Governor's re-election campaign in a manner so that the public would be deceived and the payments would not be disclosed, as required by law.''

After the Supreme Court in June overturned the conviction of former Enron Corporation CEO Jeffrey Skilling under the federal ''honest services'' statute, Clark's attorney, Bruce Gagnon of Anchorage, argued that Clark’s case should be dismissed as well.

However, prosecutors used what was known as the ''honest services'' charge against Clark, alleging he'd used United States mail and interstate wire communications in commission of the crime, but did not use a bribery charge.

''The Information to which Mr. Clark pled guilty in this case charges him with engaging in an honest services fraud scheme that falls outside of the Supreme Court's new, narrowly tailored construction of that law,'' wrote Kevin R. Feldis, assistant U.S. Attorney.

As part of the plea agreement to which Clark pled guilty, no other charges are allowed to be brought against him.

Murkowski was defeated in his re-election bid by Sarah Palin in 2006. After several Alaska legislators and others were convicted or pled guilty to corruption charges, Palin urged the Alaska Legislature to revisit the oil tax issue.

published October 20, 2010

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