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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2007 (202) 514-2007

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Alaska Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to

Conspiring to
Obtain Bribe Payments for State
Lawmaker
WASHINGTON – A lobbyist from Anchorage, Alaska, has pleaded guilty to a
charge of conspiring to obtain bribe payments for a former elected member of the
Alaska House of Representatives, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the
Criminal Division announced today.

William B. Bobrick pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information today before

Chief U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick at the federal court in Anchorage.

Bobrick admitted that beginning in July 2004 and continuing until March 2005, he
conspired with Thomas T. Anderson, a former member of the Alaska House of
Representatives, to solicit and receive $24,000 in payments from an FBI
confidential source. Bobrick admitted that he and Anderson agreed to accept the
$24,000 in payments in exchange for Anderson’s agreement to take official acts as a
member of the Alaska state Legislature to further certain business projects,
including securing positions on specific legislative committees and subcommittees,
voting for legislation, and lobbying other state legislators to support the same
legislation. In one conversation with the FBI confidential source, Bobrick
represented that in exchange for the $24,000, Anderson would “[b]e our boy in
Juneau.”

Bobrick also admitted that, in order to conceal the payments, he and Anderson
conspired to use a company created by Bobrick – Pacific Publications – as a conduit
for the payments from the FBI confidential source. During the course of the scheme,
Bobrick received three separate payments of $8,000. Bobrick deposited those checks
into a Pacific Publications bank account, and then provided Anderson with checks
drawn on the Pacific Publications account. Bobrick admitted that the purpose of the
company was in part to keep Anderson from having to list the FBI confidential
source as a source of income on Anderson’s financial disclosure forms with the
Alaska Public Offices Commission.
Bobrick faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for
conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, bribery, and money
laundering.

A seven-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Anchorage in

December 2006 charged Anderson with extortion, conspiracy, bribery and money
laundering. An indictment is merely an accusation and defendants are presumed
innocent until proven guilty at trial beyond a reasonable doubt. This case is being
prosecuted by trial attorneys Nicholas A. Marsh and Edward P. Sullivan of the
Public Integrity Section, which is headed by Chief William M. Welch II, and
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph W. Bottini and James A. Goeke from the District
of Alaska. The case is being investigated by special agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.

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