Former Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, right talks with former Anchorage mayor George Sullivan, left, and mayoral candidate Dan Sullivan at a fundraiser for Dan Sullivan in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, April 24, 2009. Stevens has made his first public appearances in Alaska this week after a federal judge threw out his felony corruption convictions because of prosecutorial misconduct. Stevens has declined to talk about the case because the federal prosecutors are now under investigation.