A trio of gay lovers made a pact to cover up the stabbing death of promising young lawyer Robert Wone to protect their “powerful bond,” a prosecutor charged in opening statements Monday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner told Judge Lynn Leibovitz that housemates Joseph Price, 39, Victor Zaborsky 44, and Dylan Ward, 39 acted as a family to mutually protect each other after Wone was stabbed to death in a posh Dupont Circle town house. The three defendants are accused of cleaning up the crime scene and misdirecting police to throw investigators off the trail of Wone’s killer.

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