Yesterday, the jury heard the from the former head of Veco Corp., Bill Allen.  The company and its executives have been instrumental players in a number of Alaska's public corruption cases.   Observers seem to view Allen as the government's key witness in the case against Senator Stevens.  The prosecution could rest its case as early as tomorrow:

The government’s star witness against Ted Stevens gave dramatic testimony Tuesday that he lavished the Republican senator with gifts and arranged widespread renovations to the senator’s chalet in a ski town in Alaska.

Bill Allen, in the first of two days of testimony that could determine the outcome of the case, described his close personal friendship with Stevens and how he, as head of the now-defunct Veco Corp. oil-services firm, played the main role in the gift-giving scandal that has landed the longest-serving Senate Republican in criminal court.