Roger Clemens Probably In World Of Trouble…
Ah, Roger Clemens is now in probably a world of trouble. Well, the Justice Department was asked today to investigate whether Roger Clemens made false statements to a House committee when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone due to his performance on Capitol Hill.
In a letter sent Wednesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens’ testimony that he “never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation.”
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner gave a sworn deposition behind closed doors Feb. 5, then spoke alongside his accuser, former personal trainer Brian McNamee, at a public hearing Feb. 13.
“We are not in a position to reach a definitive judgment as to whether Mr. Clemens lied to the committee,” Waxman and Davis wrote. “Our only conclusion is that significant questions have been raised about Mr. Clemens’s truthfulness.”
The letter noted Clemens’ testimony was “directly contradicted” by the sworn statements of McNamee, who said he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH at least 16 times from 1998 to 2001. Waxman and Davis also pointed to the deposition and affidavit of Clemens’ good friend and former teammate, Andy Pettitte, who told the committee Clemens “admitted to him in 1999 or 2000 that he had taken human growth hormone.”
“The contradictions and conflicts in what Clemens had to say, as compared to what others had to say, raised the issues about him,” Waxman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t think there was an issue about Brian McNamee, but there certainly were issues about Roger Clemens.”
Obviously it will take some time to determine Roger’s guilt or innocence, but he could be in a world of trouble for a long time…
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