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Oct 6 2008, AP

In October 2006, a longtime loyalist of Sen. Ted Stevens called him up with a big problem: The FBI, he said, was breathing down his neck about a makeover of the senator’s mountain cabin.

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Evel Knievel, is seen May 11, 2006 file photo in Clearwater, Fla. Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law _ the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a...