The Nation - News from Aug. 1, 1985
Gov. Bill Sheffield, amid signs that a move to impeach him may be faltering, assured an Alaska Senate panel that he did not lie to a grand jury investigating whether he steered a state lease to a political crony. “It didn’t matter to me at any time who owned the building” for which the lease was granted, Sheffield told the Rules Committee. Sheffield, 57, was accused of manipulating a $9.1-million state office lease as a political payoff for Lenny Arsenault of Fairbanks, and then lying about his role.
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