Federal prosecutors handling the investigation of the late Sen. Ted Stevens knew one of their key witnesses had been accused of having sex with an underage girl. They knew that the girl had signed a false affidavit stating she did not have sex with that witness, Alaska oil businessman Bill Allen, after the girl’s roommate — a prostitute who had introduced Allen to the then-15-year-old girl — threatened to blackmail him.
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