Posted on 10/11/2022 4:42:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Eric Kay, dressed in an orange jumpsuit with handcuffs and leg shackles, didn’t react when U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means read his sentence. Kay faced at least 20 years in prison on one of the two counts.
There was no reaction from Skaggs’ widow and mother or members of Kay’s family, including one of his sons who read a statement on his behalf before sentencing. A bailiff had warned observers they would be removed from the court over any outbursts.
Prosecutors presented evidence of Kay, 48, making derogatory comments about Skaggs, his family, prosecutors and jurors in phone calls and emails after he was convicted in February.
There was emotional testimony from both sides in federal court in Fort Worth, about 15 miles from where the Angels were supposed to open a four-game series against the Texas Rangers on July 1, 2019, the day Skaggs was found dead in a suburban Dallas hotel room.
Kay was convicted on one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. Means recommended Kay serve his time in his home state of California. He has been in prison in Fort Worth since the conviction.
A coroner’s report said Skaggs, 27, had choked to death on his vomit and that a toxic mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone was in his system.
[Judge] Means said he added two years because of Kay’s comments to his family in jailhouse conversations after the conviction.
Kay served as the team’s public relations contact on many road trips, and the trip to Texas was his first since returning from rehab. Kay was placed on leave shortly after Skaggs’ death and never returned to the team.
Prosecutors say Kay gave Skaggs counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl.
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Thanks. I’ve been wondering, “Skaggs who? Ricky Skaggs? Boz Skaggs?”
Well it's a really great song, one of the classics of our era.
Me too. And thinking it was the Hell's Angels.
Thank democrats who supplied the fentanyl.
Well of course. I just figured it was the Hell’s Angels. And Boz Skaggs.
I’ve known some pro athletes. None of them would take anything that wasn’t given to them by a doc. Period. They treated their bodies like professional tools.
Teach your kids not to take anything from a “friend.” Drugs are a shitty business.
I don’t like blue grass music anyway...
Take Fentanyl and you win a Darwin Award.
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