McCain to give Stevens money to Pa. 9/11 memorial
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
SOMERSET, Pa. Republican presidential candidate John McCain will give $5,000 that his campaign received from indicted Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee to the Flight 93 National Memorial, a campaign spokesman said Wednesday.
The Arizona senator's campaign received a contribution in April from Stevens' Northern Light PAC, said Paul Lindsay, spokesman for McCain's campaign in Pennsylvania. Stevens was indicted last month on felony charges of concealing more than a quarter-million dollars in gifts and services from an oil company that helped renovate his home in Alaska.
A $58 million memorial is planned in the southwestern Pennsylvania field where the hijacked United Airlines airplane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, killing all 40 passengers and crew. An official investigation concluded the four hijackers crashed the plane near Shanksville when passengers tried to wrest control of the cockpit.
Officials expect about 40 percent of the permanent memorial to be completed in time for a ribbon-cutting on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco.
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