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.â€