Closing Arguments in Stevens Trial Government prosecutors and a defense lawyer for Senator Ted Stevens gave starkly different accounts to a jury Tuesday over whether Mr. Stevens violated ethics laws by not disclosing tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and services that he received. Joseph Bottini, a federal prosecutor, told the jurors that Mr. Stevens, Republican of Alaska, was well aware that he received an array of gifts, including a sled dog, a sculpture and a massage chair, as well as the more valuable services of a longtime friend, Bill Allen, who used his company, Veco, to oversee a vast remodeling of the Stevens home. “This is a simple case of an elected public official who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in free benefits and concealed those facts,” Mr. Bottini said. Mr. Stevens’s chief defense lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, responded that the government had offered “a very twisted interpretation of the evidence” to prosecute a prominent lawmaker who had served in the Senate honorably for 40 years. In his telling, Mr. Stevens was the unwilling recipient of many gifts that Mr. Allen provided without his knowledge. And it was Catherine Stevens, the senator’s wife, who was in charge of the renovation project and paid some $160,000 in bills believing they accounted for the entire project....