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Bonds Indicted for Perjury, Obstruction of Justice

By McNabb Associates

Major League Baseball's career home run leader, Barry Bonds, has been indicted on five felony charges in connection with his testimony before a U.S. federal grand jury in 2003 that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.[1] The indictment tops off a four-year federal investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, of which Bonds has long been considered the primary target. Seven others have pleaded guilty in the case, most recently the former Olympic sprinter Marion Jones.[2]The indictment, which includes four charges of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, contends that the government can prove that a positive steroid blood test result from 2000 seized in a 2003 raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or Balco, belonged to Bonds; if true, it would be the first direct evidence that Bonds took steroids...continue to full post

Full post as published by Federal Crimes Blog on November 16, 2007 (boomark / email).