WASHINGTON AP – In the latest sideshow at Sen. Ted Stevens’s corruption trial, the federal judge overseeing the case accused the lawyer for the government’s star witness of making secret signals to his client during a crucial cross-examination.

“He’s fortunate he went out that door and not the back door with the marshals,” an angry U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said about lawyer Robert Bundy, who was sitting in the public gallery facing his client, VECO founder and key witness against Stevens, Bill Allen.