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    To me the Alaska public has benefited the most by the fact that Bill Allen isn't out there trying to corrupt politics anymore," said state Rep. Les Gara of Anchorage. "He was helping the federal government catch other people that he corrupted, but on the other hand, you wouldn't have had any of this stuff if you hadn't had Bill Allen" Rep Mike Doogan, also of Anchorage, said. Full Article at KTUU
    He was helping the federal government catch other people that he corrupted, but on the other hand, you wouldn't have had any of this stuff if you hadn't had Bill Allen
    – Mike Doogan SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
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Lawmakers react to Allen's sentencing
  1. As Bill has said, his health is marginal. He's 72 years old and he's lost virtually all of his friends and paid a significant penalty. If it was a fair deal or not, I don't know. That's the judge's decision, but I do know that Bill and Rick (Smith) were hugely helpful to putting together the cases that ...
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
  2. It's hard to judge how much time he should've gotten. To me the Alaska public has benefited the most by the fact that Bill Allen isn't out there trying to corrupt politics anymore
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
  3. Quite a few people have said: ‘Hey, glad there's somebody that's straight that helped out rooting out the bad guys.' I got a lot of threatening phone calls. We have a tradition in our country of you never rat out your friends or colleagues and I had to do some soul searching about that and some of the t...
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
  4. I invited Bill out to breakfast and said, ‘Hey, the FBI guys would like to talk to you. If you don't want to talk to them, fine, you and I can go talk about old cars.' He said, ‘Yeah, I'll go talk to them,'
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
  5. Clearly this has been a dark chapter in our state's history and today's sentencing is a major milestone in putting this sad episode behind us.
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago
  6. By that time I knew that some pretty ugly things were going on
    SOURCE: KTUU 1 month ago

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