Sen. Ted Stevens Takes Bridge To Nowhere...

...as the longest serving Republican Senator is indicted on seven criminal charges "of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home."

Prosecutors said Stevens "took multiple steps to continue" receiving things from oil services company VECO Corp., and its founder, Bill Allen. At the time, the indictment says, Allen and other VECO employees were soliciting Stevens for "multiple official actions .... knowing that Stevens could and did use his official position and his office on behalf of VECO during that same time period."

The wheels are coming off.


UPDATE (9:52pm): It seems the good Senator was not charged with bribery because the statute of limitations had expired.