 Bill Allen, the head of the oil field services company VECO Corporation, testified in a September 2007 trial that he had bribed Ben Stevens and two other state legislators, and also testified in the trial of Ted Stevens.In his six years in the Alaska Senate, Ben had received $240,000 from VECO for unspecified consulting fees.In September 2007, Stevens called in to an Anchorage talk radio show to proclaim his innocence.