What About the Gifts and Renovations?

No question that the prosecutors kept
The senator’s attorney in the dark
Regarding what their witness told, except,
Alone, the feds’ misdoings miss the mark
When trying to figure out what’s more to blame:
Omission’s sin or rank corruption’s shame.

Alaska’s Stevens may be free to walk,
Self-righteous that his guilty verdict’s tossed
And prosecutors staring at the dock,
Afraid that now it’s they whose honor’s lost.
One matter, though, that through the fracas rifts
A quarter-million dollars worth of gifts.

And also free improvement to his house,
Which U.S. Senate ethics don’t espouse
It seems that Ted himself knew this full well.
As though he could his legal mess foretell:
For home repairs, he thought about a bill.
He’s clean if he pays up, but not until.