16 Facts About Frank Prewitt

James Franklin Prewitt was an American attorney and government affairs consultant.

Frank Prewitt was a confidential source upon whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation relied to help prosecute "Operation Polar Pen, " the Alaska political corruption probe that eventually ensnared United States Senator Ted Stevens.

Frank Prewitt was the youngest of three children born to Catherine and James Prewitt, co-founder of Western Baptist College in Salem, Oregon.

Frank Prewitt attended public and international schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and Israel and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Corban College, a Master of Science degree from the University of Oregon and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puget Sound School of Law.

In thirteen years of public service to the State of Alaska, Frank Prewitt served as the Director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Corrections and Assistant Alaska Attorney General.

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Frank Prewitt served under, and at the will of three successive Alaska Governors.

In 1995 Frank Prewitt established a private consulting and lobbying practice advising and representing human service organizations pursuing business partnerships, outsourcing opportunity, funding, statutory and regulatory changes with Alaska state and local government.

From 1998 to 2004 Frank Prewitt was the consulting government affairs and corrections expert for corporate partnerships proposing construction and operation of for-profit correctional facilities in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.

From 2004 to 2007, Frank Prewitt worked with undercover investigators as an FBI confidential source, exposing Alaska's sub-culture of political corruption.

Bottini said that Prewitt has done a 'tremendous job' for the government, 'we owe him a lot, frankly'.

Frank Prewitt contends his participation with the FBI began after he was cleared.

Frank Prewitt wore a wire to record conversations in meetings with probe targets.

Under cross-examination during the criminal trial of former Alaska Representative Tom Anderson, Frank Prewitt testified that he accepted a $30,000 loan from Bill Weimar in 1994, four months before the end of his term as Commissioner of Corrections.

Frank Prewitt testified it was a personal loan offered during a family emergency that he gratefully accepted and repaid by providing six months of legal consulting work for Allvest, Incorporated from February 1995 to July 1995.

Frank Prewitt acknowledged making an improper campaign contribution in 2002 that could have resulted in a civil fine or written warning if the violation had come to the attention of the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Frank Prewitt was survived by his wife, V Rae, son Jason, daughters Tara Horton and Kelly Preston.