Another guilty plea in Alaska's Veco. Corp scandal

Submitted by crew on 3 March 2008 - 9:39pm. Alaska Frank Murkowski Veco Corp.

Jim Clark, former chief of staff to ex-Gov. Frank Murkowski, agreed to plead guilty Monday to a single felony charge of fraud in the latest case brought by the federal government in the Alaska corruption scandal. Clark admitted asking officials of the now-defunct oil-field service company Veco to illegally spend more than $68,000 on polls and political consultants for Murkowski's failed re-election bid in 2006.

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