By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Charges have been dropped against three Washington area FBI agents and an analyst who were accused of covering up use of steroids and human growth hormones. In federal court on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a one-page document dismissing the charges without prejudice, leaving open the possibility of…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com “Say it ain’t so, Rocket.” (“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Reported words of a young fan to Shoeless Joe Jackson after the Black Sox gambling scandal.) Roger Clemens may have lied under oath in front of a Congressional committee regarding the use of steroids during his baseball career, but so what?…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Three FBI agents and an agency analyst in the Washington area were charged with providing false statements after they allegedly failed to disclose on government forms the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones commonly taken in the sports and bodybuilding world, authorities announced today. One…
Barry Bonds/facebook By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Home run slugger Barry Bonds just keeps knocking them out of the park in the legal arena. On Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a federal judge’s ruling that bars three steroid tests from being introduced into his perjury case, a ruling that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Jose Conseco, — who is described in the New York Daily News as a “now broke former ballplayer” — emerged from a grand jury in Washington on Thursday and had a few words about the investigation into whether former pitcher Roger Clemens perjured himself before Congress about taking steroids…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Signs of life in the perjury investigation into seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens surfaced Tuesday when a key witness in the case testified before a federal grand jury in Washington, the AP reported. Clemen’s former personal trainer Brian McNamee spent more than 2 1/2 hours inside the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ticklethewire.com’s own columnist Greg Stejskal is stirring up a little controversy in major league baseball. The retired Michigan FBI agent, who became one of the FBI’s expert on steroid use in sports, told the N.Y. Daily News earlier this week that one time slugger Mark McGwire used some type…
Things have not gone so well when it comes to the federal government’s probe into illegal use of steroids in major league baseball. The Barry Bonds case appears to be going nowhere. And this ruling could hurt other possible cases. By Maura Dolan and Lance Pugmire Los Angeles Times The federal government illegally seized confidential…
