Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/federal-agents-raid-alaska-home-of-longtime-senator Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript FBI and IRS agents raided the home of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, in an investigation into possible connections to an oil contractor indicted on bribery. An Alaska-based reporter provides an update on the probe. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. MARGARET WARNER: It was a dramatic scene yesterday at the Alaska home of the state's senior senator, Ted Stevens. More than a dozen FBI and IRS agents swarmed over the house for hours, photographing and videotaping it extensively. The agents also left with a garbage bag full of unidentified materials.Agents didn't say what they were looking for, but a major remodeling of the house in 2000 was overseen by a Stevens friend, oilfield services company executive Bill Allen. In May, Allen pled guilty to bribing Alaska state lawmakers, resigned as chairman of Veco Corporation, and began cooperating with prosecutors.The 83-year-old Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate, insists he paid every renovation bill he got with his own money. Former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he remains a powerful figure in Washington and in Alaska.Joining us to explain what's behind yesterday's raid is Richard Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News.And, Richard Mauer, thank you for joining us. So what triggered this raid of a sitting senator's home? RICHARD MAUER, Anchorage Daily News: Well, this has to do with this ongoing investigation that's been taking place in Alaska for several years and has led to the indictment of several legislators, as you said.In the year 2000, Senator Stevens' house was extensively remodeled, doubled in size. They basically picked the house up and built another floor underneath. And the question is, did Senator Stevens pay for the entire project? Was some of it a gift from Veco or others? And so the raid was about documenting exactly what happened inside.