WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted seven-time Cy YoungAward winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.
Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statementsand perjury.
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The former Major League baseball pitcher and his former trainer, BrianMcNamee, testified under oath at a 2008 hearing before a House committee andcontradicted each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances.
McNamee has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell andthe committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids andhuman growth hormone from 1998 to 2001.
Clemens has maintained that McNamee was lying.
Clemens’ attorney, Rusty Hardin, said by telephone from Houston that he hadjust learned of the indictment and would wait to decide whether to comment.
The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, the judge whopresided over the perjury and obstruction trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’sformer chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. No date has been set forClemens’ initial court appearance.
In a defiant appearance before the House Oversight and Government ReformCommittee in 2008, Clemens said, “I’ve been accused of something I’m not guiltyof … I have never taken steroids or HGH.”
Longtime Clemens friend and pitching star Andy Pettite told congressionalinvestigators that Clemens confided to him that he had used human growthhormone. Clemens said Pettite’s assertion wasn’t correct.
“I believe Andy has misheard” the conversation, Clemens responded. He saidhe had simply mentioned to Pettite a TV show about three older men who used HGHto get back their quality of life.
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Roger Clemens charged with perjury in steroid case
Started by Timothy, Aug 19 2010 02:32 PM
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Posted 24 August 2010 - 11:06 PM
i think it sucks
80 percent of athletes cheat. and just cause he lied, he gets time in the pen?
He will serve more time than Donte stallworth who killed somebody GTFO
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