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Congress may push for Clemens perjury prosecution

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times this morning reports here on the latest doings in the Roger Clemens HGH brouhaha:A Congressional committee has taken the first steps toward asking the Department of Justice to start a criminal investigation into whether Roger Clemens committed perjury during testimony about performance-enhancing drugs, according to three lawyers with knowledge of the matter. The committee chairman Henry A. Waxman said a decision about referring Clemens had not been made.  A draft letter referring Clemens, but not his accuser Brian McNamee, had been drawn up by staff members for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by the end of last week, according to two of the lawyers.  But all three lawyers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter, said it was possible that McNamee would also be included in the referral by the time it was sent to the Justice Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).