WASHINGTON AP – Republican Sen. Ted Stevens is relying on some of his famous friends to vouch for his honor and honesty in a corruption trial in which he is accused of lying about gifts received from an Alaska oil services company.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was scheduled to take the stand on Friday for Stevens, who is accused of lying on Senate forms to conceal more than $250,000 in renovations on his cabin and other gifts from Bill Allen, the former chief of VECO Corp.