Ilitch pal Rep. Don Young has spent $450,000 on legal defense in last six months

11.11.07

MSNBC has reported that Congressman Don Young, a political pal of Detroit's Michael Malik and Mike & Marian Ilitch, is reportedly under investigation and has spent $450,000 on legal matters during the last six months:

...But with signs that the investigation is brushing against Alaska's lone congressman, Don Young (R), and its longtime and venerated senator, Ted Stevens (R), residents of the Last Frontier are experiencing a rare spasm of soul-searching.

"These disclosures have come as a real shock, because of revelations of what was going on, and because Alaskans have always felt that they are special," said Vic Fisher, 83, one of four surviving members of the convention that only a half-century ago wrote Alaska's state constitution. "And that this thing is ruining our national reputation."

Young, who has represented the nation's largest state in the U.S. House for 34 years, has not been named in the proceedings — yet he reports spending $450,000 on legal fees over the past six months. Veco, the oil-field services company that Allen owned, was Young's largest campaign contributor...