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Posted Feb 22nd 2008 12:25PM by Josh Alper
Filed under: MLB Gossip, PEDs
It's always been amusing that when the federal government finally put Al Capone behind bars it was for income tax evasion, instead of anything to do with violence or bootlegging. It would be equally amusing if the thing that trips Roger Clemens up in this whole steroid mess isn't the fact that he might have used performance enhancing drugs but that he lied about going to a party at Jose Canseco's house.
According to the New York Daily News, that may just be what gets him. The paper reports that there's a photo of Clemens at Canseco's house which, while proving nothing about drug use, would leave him as a liar during his congressional testimony.
The photo is owned by a young man who attended the party when he was 11 years old and took photos of his baseball heroes, including Clemens. Richard Emery, one of the lawyers for Clemens accuser Brian McNamee, was aware that such evidence had been circulating this week. "We have reason to believe it's reliable evidence. We believe there's photographic evidence that shows Clemens was at a party he says he wasn't at."
Such a photo would also make McNamee's overall testimony more credibile and could probably open the door to some kind of witness tampering accusations given his conversation with the former nanny before she spoke to congressional committee. Above all else, such a photo would give the government a wedge to expand their investigation, a la Barry Bonds, which is just what Clemens was trying to avoid.
Filed under: MLB Gossip, PEDs
It's always been amusing that when the federal government finally put Al Capone behind bars it was for income tax evasion, instead of anything to do with violence or bootlegging. It would be equally amusing if the thing that trips Roger Clemens up in this whole steroid mess isn't the fact that he might have used performance enhancing drugs but that he lied about going to a party at Jose Canseco's house.
According to the New York Daily News, that may just be what gets him. The paper reports that there's a photo of Clemens at Canseco's house which, while proving nothing about drug use, would leave him as a liar during his congressional testimony.
The photo is owned by a young man who attended the party when he was 11 years old and took photos of his baseball heroes, including Clemens. Richard Emery, one of the lawyers for Clemens accuser Brian McNamee, was aware that such evidence had been circulating this week. "We have reason to believe it's reliable evidence. We believe there's photographic evidence that shows Clemens was at a party he says he wasn't at."
Such a photo would also make McNamee's overall testimony more credibile and could probably open the door to some kind of witness tampering accusations given his conversation with the former nanny before she spoke to congressional committee. Above all else, such a photo would give the government a wedge to expand their investigation, a la Barry Bonds, which is just what Clemens was trying to avoid.
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