“Although the vacation appeared on a draft of Mr. McDonnell’s [Statement of Economic Interests] he crossed it out and added the handwritten margin annotation ‘personal’ to indicate that the entry was a gift from a personal friend, when in fact it was not,” prosecutors write.

Spencer also denied a defense motion urging the judge to require prosecutors to show in a separate hearing that the former governor conspired with his wife before presenting evidence about Maureen McDonnell in their joint corruption trial. The judge said such a hearing would be needlessly duplicative.

As for the expert witnesses, the judge rejected as unhelpful to the jury proposed testimony by lawyer Peter H. White. Spencer said he would allow part of the proposed testimony by J. Allen Kosowsky, a certified public accountant.

In separate hearings in recent days, White and Kosowsky conceded that they could not put a dollar value on the benefits former Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams Sr. accrued when the government intervened in two unrelated civil suits filed against the company.

But the judge said Wednesday that he will allow Kosowsky to testify that the McDonnells had a positive net worth if the defense first establishes a factual basis for the expert’s opinion.