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Another prominent (minority) athlete in trouble for lying about steriod use

By Douglas A. Berman

The latest news on the steroid litigation front has to make Roger Clemens plenty worried. Here is today's steroid development as reported in this Bloomberg article: Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged with lying to Congress about performance- enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball. Tejada ?unlawfully, willingly and knowingly? failed to tell everything he knew about an unidentified player?s use of steroids and human growth hormone during meetings with the congressional investigators in August 2005, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor said in a criminal information filed today in Washington. A criminal information can?t be filed in a felony case without the consent of the defendant, according to Sullivan & Cromwell attorney Karen Patton Seymour, former chief of the criminal division for the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).