Now that the government has released a barrage of documents, the question remains: What’s Bond’s defense? It better be good.
Lance Williams and Bob Egelko
San Francisco Chronicle
SAN FRANCISCO — Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds used the BALCO designer steroid “the clear” during the 2003 baseball season and also was taking a female fertility drug that can mask drug use on steroid tests, federal prosecutors say.
Also in 2003, Bonds’ trainer, Greg Anderson, was secretly tape-recorded describing the regimen of undetectable banned drugs that baseball’s all-time homerun leader was using, federal prosecutors say.
In documents unsealed today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the government laid out what it hopes will be the core of evidence it will present to a jury next month in Bonds’ trial on perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges.
He is accused of lying when he told a grand jury in 2003 that he had never knowingly used steroids.
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