Posted on 05/13/2008 5:29:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
The counts were filed in what's known as a superseding indictment that added 10 more counts to the four baseball's all-time home run king was charged with in November.
In March, the perjury case against Bonds was put on hold for three months, with prosecutors telling a federal judge they plan to obtain a new indictment against him.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had told prosecutors on Feb. 29 to fix their original indictment because it lumped multiple allegations into too few counts. Illston said that prosecutors needed to drop some of the allegations from the indictment or add more charges.
Eight people connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) have pleaded guilty, including track star Marion Jones, who began a six-month sentence in federal prison on March 7. Jones pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs and admitted lying to investigators about her association with a check-fraud scheme.
Bonds was indicted in November on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, stemming from 2003 grand-jury testimony in which he denied knowingly taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds was let go by the San Francisco Giants this offseason. The 43-year-old outfielder remains a free agent and wants to play this year.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Bunch of bull sheet. Stupid
Why isn’t all of this an issue for major league baseball (a private organization) and not the USDOJ? I really don’t understand why short of fixing baseball games for money (criminal fraud) this is any business of the US Attorneys. Maybe I am missing something.
Because the US Congress granted MLB a special exemption from the anti-trust rules.
And with great privilege comes great responsibility - something that MLB appears to have forgotten. That’s why Congress is involved.
I really don’t know. I just ran across the article and posted it because it hadn’t been posted.
Other than pro’s setting a bad example for our youth I could care less about them using steroids, it’s their own bodies they’re messing up.
I think you make a good point about it being none of the US Attorneys business.
The us atorneys got dragged into the deal by the idjits that want to bet on the games. Berry messed up the betting by hitting so many homers.
So much for the conspiracy by baseball owners to keep Bonds out of the league.
This isn't Congress. It is the executive branch, US DOJ, prosecutors and all that sheet. I just don't know what all of that has to do with law enforcement, I really don't. I mean if the local county DA wants to work out a plea deal for illegal drug possession, ok, although I oppose the drug enforcement bonanza, but I just don't see this as a federal case.
for later. thanks
The short answer, AJ: The Steroids Control Act of 1990 places the power in federal courts. Congress passed a law and a president signed it. It is not up to DOJ to say it does not want to enforce the law. In fact, people do get prosecuted for this. We just don’t hear about it.
Lots of information about this on the web, by the way, indicates such prosecutions are not only common, but expensive to the defendant.
Oh [big] brother. Steroids should be banned from sports - Absolutely banned and sports organizations should be legally exempt from liability for enforcement of said bans, but other than that, I am against this creeping encroachment of federal powers. Should Bonds be playing - nope. Should he be in jail - nope.
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A GJ that was investigating steroid yes in Major League Baseball. Yes I got it long ago. I don't get why we are wasting tax dollars on this nonsense. If it hurts the image of MLB let MLB clean up their messes.
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