By LARRY MARGASAK
The Associated Press

No sh*t! They’re all under indictment or under investigation.

WASHINGTON - When he was a keeper of the federal purse strings, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska told another Republican senator who opposed the infamous “bridge to nowhere,” “I don’t threaten people. I promise people.”

His home’state GOP colleague, Rep. Don Young, was not to be outdone. Last month he told a fellow House member who opposed education money for native Alaskans: “There is always another day when those who bite will be killed, too, and I am very good at that. Those that bite me will be bitten back.”

Stevens and Young may not be promising, threatening or biting anymore, now that both are under federal investigation.

The investigations - and a questionable land deal that entangled the third member of Alaska’s congressional delegation - also may have ended a modern-day gold rush that sent billions of federal dollars to the state.

Alaska’s entire delegation is under an ethical cloud, something congressional historians say is unprecedented:

• Stevens is contending with an extraordinary FBI and IRS raid on his Girdwood, Alaska, home and a probe into his dealings with businessmen who oversaw remodeling of the house.

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