From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage --
State House Judiciary Chairman Jay Ramras wrote Judge John Sedwick today asking him to throw the book at Bill Allen and Rick Smith.
Sedwick is to sentence the former Veco executives tomorrow for bribing Alaska legislators.
"Their degenerative behavior cannot be whitewashed by any provision of "cooperation with federal prosecutors"....Please demonstrate that these truly rogue characters, using the proper definition of the word, are sentenced to the maximum prison term allowed and are mandated into custody immediately," Ramras wrote in his letter.
Ramras noted to Sedwick that prosecutors' request of just over 40 months in prison for Allen and Smith means they "will potentially be sentenced to spend less time in prison than what the legislators they were accused of corrupting are spending."
Ramras, a Fairbanks Republican, is running for lieutenant governor.
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