Feds looking at misuse of Wildlife Funds in Stevens Probe

It looks like things are starting to get worse for Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens.

Feds are now looking into allegations he steered money to a wildlife research center that may have been steered to a former aide.

From Breitbart --

Justice Department officials investigating Sen. Ted Stevens are examining whether federal funds he steered to an Alaska wildlife research center may have enriched a former aide, say officials familiar with the probe.

The Commerce Department and the Interior Department's inspector general are assisting in looking at how millions of dollars that Stevens, R-Alaska, obtained for the nonprofit Alaska SeaLife Center were spent....

Among the questions is how about $700,000 of nearly $4 million directed to the National Park Service wound up being paid to companies associated with Trevor McCabe, a former legislative director for Stevens, according to officials and others familiar with the deals.

The SeaLife Center got about a quarter of the $4 million and paid more than $500,000 for land next to it that belonged to a company owned by McCabe. The price was more than twice the land's appraised value. More...