OPINION: Let’s set the record straight: Ted Stevens was framed.

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, flanked by his his daughter Beth Stevens, left, and wife, Catherine, right, arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, as his trial on corruption charges goes to the jury. In 2008, after 40 years in the U.S. Senate, a jury found him guilty of a felony for failing to disclose gifts he received. Eight days later, he narrowly lost re-election.

But I recently had occasion to read that special prosecutor report and another 500-page report on the case. I realized I had it wrong all these years. Let me take you back to 2002. A remodel of Sen. Stevens’ Girdwood ski cabin had gone sideways. Stevens was too busy to deal with it. He hardly ever used the cabin. His friend Bill Allen, who used it more, stepped in to finish the job with his own guys from Veco, his huge oil field services company.

Allen offered to testify he did free work on the Girdwood house, a gift Stevens had not reported. But Allen was a questionable witness. Besides his many political crimes, he was a pedophile. He gave gifts and money to a 15-year-old girl and her family to repeatedly have sex with her. Then he got the girl to lie about it in an affidavit.

The lawyers and an FBI agent met with Allen and asked him about the Torricelli notes. He said he didn’t remember them. Conveniently, the agent and the attorneys forgot about that meeting and lost their record of it, so it was never disclosed. They would also keep the foreman’s testimony about the invoices quiet.

When Allen testified to that on the stand, the defense was shocked. They had never heard this version of the story before. In cross-examination, Stevens’ lawyer asked Allen when he had first told this “cover your ass” story to prosecutors. Allen said that had always been his story. Prosecutors who knew that was a lie said nothing. In fact, they repeated it in their closing argument.

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