lkmcgann May 16, 2007, 4:45 PM

A third corruption guilty plea since last week came out of Alaska yesterday. This time, prominent lobbyist Bill Bobrick owned up to a conspiracy to bribe former state Rep. Tom Anderson, who himself was indicted on seven felony counts of bribery, extortion and money laundering in December. Last week, top executives at one of Bobrick’s client companies, VECO Corp., pled guilty to charges of bribing three state representatives and two senators. The Anchorage Daily News had the story on Bobrick this morning.

The prosecution says in court papers that Bobrick and Anderson began conspiring in July 2004. Bobrick created a sham company to funnel payments to Anderson in exchange for his doing the bidding of a private corrections company in the state Legislature, the prosecution says. Prosecutors quote Bobrick telling an informant that he and Anderson were “pitching a bunch of people” to get money for the legislator.

Ted Stevens, Veco