Roger Clemens charged with perjury in steroid case

WASHINGTON(AP) —A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.

Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statements and perjury.

The former Major League baseball pitcher and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified under oath at a 2008 hearing before a House committee and contradicted each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances.

McNamee has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell and the committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 to 2001.

Clemens has maintained that McNamee was lying.

Clemens’ attorney, Rusty Hardin, said by telephone from Houston that he had just learned of the indictment and would wait to decide whether to comment.

Source: Yahoo Sports

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FPS said:

Im glad this guy is getting the justice he deserves. Never liked the guy after he was head hunting Piazza and then threw a bat at him in the World Series.

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elcheato said:

God knows why people were even put in front of the grand jury for this steroid <Censored>.. No, he does not deserve to go to jail for using steroids.

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RipCity32 said:

Clemens didn't have to go I guess. That what I was listening to on ESPN. They said Clemens wanted to testify in court to show everyone his innocence. But he could of not even said anything and could of avoided all of this I guess.

But I agree with what you said completely.

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