Long time Republican Senator Ted Stevens, perhaps best known today for his advocacy of federal funding for the “bridge to nowhere” and his reference to the internet as a “series of tubes,” has been indicted by a federal grand jury on corruption charges. Stevens faces seven counts of making false statements involving an investigation about VECO, the oil services company in Alaska, and renovations done on his home.

From May 1999 to August 2007, prosecutors said Stevens concealed “his continuing receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things of value from a private corporation.” The indictment released Tuesday said the items included: home improvements to his vacation home in Alaska, including a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing, electrical wiring; as well as car exchanges, a Viking gas grill, furniture and tools, the Associated Press reports.

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