ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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LISA MOORE

Introduced to Bill Allen as a teenager in 1996 by her hooker roommate, says she traded sex with him for an apartment, jewelry and money. Broke off the relationship when Allen had sex behind her back with her friends. Says Allen tried to cover up his relationships, but she went to police in 2004 and is now a witness in the revised investigation of Allen.

JEREMY MOORE

Lisa Moore's brother. Because of his clean record, says that Allen put him charge when he wanted to get Lisa Moore out of state when Allen's sexual activities were threatened to be exposed in an Anchorage criminal case.

BAMBI TYREE

Lisa Moore says she introduced Allen to Tyree, a friend from McLaughlin Youth Center, when Tyree was 15. Moore said she hoped Allen would send Tyree to treatment for cocaine addiction, but they became sexual partners instead -- before Tyree turned 16. In 1999, Tyree said she signed a sworn statement denying the relationship with Allen at his request.

AARON PINSLY

Lisa Moore's boyfriend after Allen. When she found out Pinsly was sleeping with an underaged girl, she called the cops and Pinsly was arrested. Pinsly, who knew about Allen's sexual activities with prostitutes and minors, threatened to blow the whistle on Allen if Moore testified against him, she said, leading Allen to move her to California. Pinsly pleaded guilty to

a lesser charge and there was no trial.

UNNAMED CHILD VICTIM

Another former prostitute who said she had sex with Allen when she was 15, and that after she moved to Seattle, Allen paid to fly her back to Alaska about five times. This victim, who has not been publicly identified by name, has given interviews to police, a federal prosecutor and reporters.

BILL ALLEN

Once a leading member of Alaska's business community and chief executive of the oil-field service company Veco Corp., he's now awaiting assignment to a U.S. Bureau of

Prisons facility to begin serving three years for bribery. He cooperated with the Justice Department in the FBI

investigation of political corruption, but prosecutors are now under fire for failing to tell defendants information helpful about their cases, including all they knew about Allen. He's currently under investigation by local and

federal authorities over allegations that he had sex with at least two girls under 16, the minimum age of consent in Alaska.

JOSEF BOEHM

While not a friend of Bill Allen, the two had something in common: Bambi Tyree. When Boehm was charged in 2004 with conspiracy to provide cocaine to women under 21

and with sex trafficking, Tyree, a cocaine addict, was a

co-defendant. When Tyree's lawyers portrayed her as a victim, Moore decided to come forward -- to set the record straight, she said. The Allen sexual misconduct case became a spinoff of the Boehm investigation.

ANCHORAGE POLICE SGT. KEVIN VANDEGRIFF

Now a patrol sergeant, he was one of the police detectives to investigate Boehm for trading cocaine to women and girls for sex. When Moore came forward, he opened an investigation of Allen, but was asked by federal prosecutors to suspend it so it wouldn't distract him from the complex prosecution of Boehm. Vandegriff reopened the case in 2008.

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY FRANK RUSSO

Lead prosecutor in the Boehm case, he was the one who asked Vandegriff to suspend his investigation of Allen. Russo was present at the 2004 interviews of Moore and of Tyree, when she admitted lying in the sworn statement Allen asked her to sign.

FORMER U.S. SEN. TED STEVENS

Found guilty in 2008 by a jury of failing to disclose thousands of dollars of gifts he received from Bill Allen, but his charges were dismissed in April when prosecutors admitted they failed to turn over favorable evidence to the defense. The judge brought in a special prosecutor to investigate whether the Justice Department attorneys should be charged

with contempt.

FORMER REPS. PETE KOTT AND VIC KOHRING

Convicted of corruption charges in 2007 in part on the testimony of Allen, they were freed from prison in June to allow a judge to

determine whether information withheld from their attorneys denied them fair trials.

SHERYL GORDON MCCLOUD

Kott's appeals lawyer from Seattle. She said Kott was

unfairly tried because of withheld information, including

evidence that could have been used to challenge Allen's credibility: a possible effort to obstruct justice and to encourage perjury.

FBI SPECIAL AGENT MARY BETH KEPNER

Lead case agent in the corruption cases, she helped persuade Allen to cooperate with the investigation on the strength of the evidence against him. But another agent said in a formal complaint that she became too close to Allen.

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