Vic Kohring

OPINION: What happened to the Fairbanks Four is unfortunately common because our justice system is rotten to its core.

OPINION: It would be a great honor if voters gave me another opportunity to serve my community, especially during such an exciting time in Wasilla's history.

OPINION: Brooding and feeling sorry for myself is not an option. While my life may have been devastated, it's by no means over. Life is short, and I intend to make the best of it.

OPINION: For all those who remain skeptical that corruption exists in the government or had any effect on the trial of Vic Kohring, consider the words of a legal professional.

OPINION: Six months after conviction on public corruption charges, a borrowed car sputters to a stop on the way to the courthouse to stand before a hostile judge for sentencing.

I wish to express my deep appreciation to all of you who've stood by me through these difficult years, believed in me and continued to support me.

OPINION: Legislation at the state and federal levels is long past due to stop the legal but immoral bribery of elected officials through political donations.

OPINION: One or two of these 15 pieces of evidence from the federal investigation of corruption in Alaska would be enough to overturn a case, yet prosecutors kept them from my defense.

OPINION: The egregious abuse committed by federal prosecutors in the trial of Ted Stevens was not an isolated incident, but that's being neatly swept under the rug.

OPINION: An image of me taking a gift for my step-daughter from Bill Allen was shown so repeatedly by Alaska media that it created a lynch-mob mentality and caused well-meaning people to try and convict me before I set one foot in court.

If the government was truly interested in seeking justice instead of a conviction at any cost, it would have simply passed my case along to the Legislature's ethics committee, instead of making a huge federal case out of an Easter basket.

Former Alaska lawmaker Vic Kohring describes the stress he felt during the difficult year that elapsed between an FBI raid of his legislative offices and his trial on charges of public corruption.

Vic Kohring continues telling his side of the federal corruption probe story, this time recounting the raid of his legislative offices in Wasilla, beginning with an ominous phone call.

In the first of a series, former lawmaker Vic Kohring, now released from prison, sets the stage to tell the story of a federal probe of public corruption in Alaska from his own perspective as a defendant.