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WASHINGTON - A federal judge postponed a hearing scheduled for Monday into allegations by a witness that he received extensive help from prosecutors before he testified in the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens. The witness also alleged that he lied on the stand about an immunity deal with prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan rescheduled for Jan. 15 the hearing to consider a defense request to question the witness, David Anderson, and others about disclosures Anderson made in a letter to the judge last month.