Barry Bonds indicted on perjury charges
Posted by: Richie Rich in Barry Bonds, Baseball Law, Steroids
Add the US Government to the list of people who think that Barry Bonds has lied about his involvement in steroids.
What took them so long?
Okay, they’ve probably thought that for some time … but now they’re saying they think they can prove it.
Here’s a piece from the five count indictment from The Smoking Gun. I highlighted the part which formally accuses the defendant of what almost all of us have alleged for some time now – that Barry Bonds used steroids …
Asterisk anyone? David Pinto over at Baseball Musings surmises that that test must have come during the MLB testing survey nearly four years ago. Remember that one?
Under baseball’s labor contract that took effect on Sept. 30, 2002, testing with penalties begins after any season in which more than 5 percent of survey tests are positive. And from now on, players will be identified.
MLB said of 1,438 anonymous tests this season (2003), between 5 and 7 percent were positive.
I wonder if that minor league baseball team who offered him a contract still wants him. Because I can’t see any MLB team taking a chance on Bonds now.
Between this, the forthcoming Radomski hearing, and the upcoming Mitchell Report, welcome to the steroid offseason.
Hopefully I can convince HRD’s resident lawyer to post about this sometime this week.
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November 20th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Actually, I heard that the positive test didn’t come from MLB at all, but rather from the BALCO labs. As for why it took so long, the feds had to find something that would hold up in court; I don’t think they wanted to bring charges against Bonds that his lawyer could easily dismiss.