AFJF Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Per NY Daily news for perjury and obstruction of justice...link won't work at the moment All I could do was cut/past this so far Barry Bonds indicted BULLETIN: A federal grand jury has indicted Barry Bonds on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonJet Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 If that's true, that is glorious news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFJF Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 If that's true, that is glorious news. The headline is on the Daily News but when you click it all you get is Breaking News Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, November 15th 2007, 5:21 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Print Email Suggest a Story SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal grand jury has indicted Barry Bonds on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 http://www.ktvu.com/news/14606146/detail.html SAN FRANCISCO -- Major League Baseball's all-time home run king Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction justice charges, according to KTVU reporter Rita Williams.The five-count indictment -- four counts of perjury and one of obstruciton of justice -- capped one of the longest federal grand jury investigations in Northern California history -- a proceeding that introduced the sports world to the acronym BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) and led to the downfall of American track and field world and Olympic champions Marion Jones, Kelli White and Tim Montgomery.It touched the NFL with several current and former players called to testify including former All-Pro linebacker Bill Romanowski.It also sparked the ongoing debate surrounding Major League Baseball and its problems with athletes taking performance enhancing drugs. It's a debate that has gone to such lengths that the home run ball that Bonds ripped out of AT&T Park to break Hank Aaron's all-time record was headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame tattooed with an asterisk.The charges against Bonds stem from his Dec.4, 2003 grand jury testimony when he allegedly testified that he did not knowingly take performance enhancing drugs.Bonds trainer and friend Greg Anderson was convicted in the BALCO case on grand jury charges, served time in jail and returned to prison when he refused to testify again against Bonds. He remains in jail.But others have allegedly testified to the grand jury that Bonds had admitted to using steroids produced by BALCO including the slugger's former mistress Kimberly Bell and a former childhood friend Stevie Hoskins.The tax charges stem from cash Bonds allegedly collected -- and did not report to the Internal Revenue Service -- from memorabilia shows.Bonds broke Hank Aaron's record with his 756th home run on Aug. 7 -- an event not without plenty additional drama brought on by the federal drug probe.Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig grudgingly attended the games leading up to Bonds historic homer and Aaron did not travel to AT&T Park to witness the feat in person.The large banners commemorating the record still hang from the light posts on either side of the main center-field scoreboard at AT&T Park.Bonds ripped 762 homers in his 22 major league season and has recently talked about continuing his career else, possibly in nearby Oakland where the American League's designated hitter rule would allow him to bat but not play in the field where his aging body has robbed him of speed and quickness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFJF Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO -- Baseball superstar Barry Bonds was charged Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs. The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes. The indictment comes three months after the 43-year-old Bonds, one of the biggest names in professional sports, passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's career home run leader, his sport's most hallowed record. Bonds, who parted ways with the San Francisco Giants at the end of last season and has yet to sign with another team, also holds the game's single-season home run record of 73. While Bonds was chasing Aaron amid the adulation of San Franciscans and the scorn of baseball fans almost everywhere else, due to his notoriously prickly personality and nagging steroid allegations, a grand jury quietly worked behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment. "I'm surprised," said John Burris, one of Bonds' attorneys, "but there's been an effort to get Barry for a long time. "I'm curious what evidence they have now they didn't have before." Burris did not know of the indictment before being alerted by The Associated Press. He said he would immediate call Bonds to notify him. The indictment charges Bonds with lying when he said that he didn't knowingly take steroids given to him by his personal trainer Greg Anderson. He also denied taking steroids at anytime in 2001 when he was pursuing the single season home-run record. "During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes," the indictment reads. He is also charged with lying that Anderson never injected him with steroids. "Greg wouldn't do that," Bonds testified in December 2003 when asked if Anderson ever gave him any drugs that needed to be injected. "He knows I'm against that stuff." Bonds is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in the wide-ranging government steroids investigation launched in 2002 with the raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative -- now infamously known as BALCO -- the Burlingame-based supplements lab at the center of a large steroids distribution ring. Allegations of steroid use long have dogged Bonds, the son of an ex-Major Leaguer who broke into baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986 as a lithe, base-stealing outfielder. By the late 1990s he'd grown to more than 240 pounds, with his head, in particular, becoming noticeably bigger. Bonds' physical growth was accompanied by a remarkable power surge. During the 2001 season he broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run crown, and by 2006, he'd passed Babe Ruth to move into second-place among the sport's most prolific power hitters. He will soon in all likelihood surpass Aaron's career mark of 755 homers. Speculation of his impending indictment had mounted for more than a year. In July 2006, the U.S. attorney in San Francisco, who led the investigation, took the unusual step of going public with the probe by announcing he was handing it off to a new grand jury when the previous panel's 18-month term expired. Prosecutors are typically secretive about grand jury proceedings. At the center of the investigation is Bonds' childhood friend and personal trainer, Greg Anderson, who spent most of the past year in a federal detention center for refusing to testify to the grand jury investigating Bonds' alleged perjury. According to testimony obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonds testified in 2003 that he took two substances given to him by Anderson -- which he called "the cream" and "the clear" -- to soothe aches and pains and help him better recover from injuries. The substances fit the description of steroids peddled by BALCO founder Victor Conte. But when questioned under oath by investigators, Bonds famously said he believed Anderson had given him flaxseed oil and an arthritic balm. Investigators and the public had their doubts. Aiming to prove Bonds a liar, prosecutors tried to compel Anderson to testify. When he refused, they jailed him for contempt. Bonds joins a parade of defendants tied to the BALCO investigation, including Anderson, who served three months in prison and three months of home detention after pleading guilty to steroid distribution and money laundering. Conte also served three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to steroids distribution. Patrick Arnold, the rogue chemist who created the designer steroid THG, BALCO vice president James Valente and track coach Remi Korchemny also all also pleaded guilty. Korchemny and Valente were sentenced to probation and Arnold sent to prison for four months. Kirk Radomski, a former New York Mets clubhouse attendant, pleaded guilty April 27 to drug and money laundering charges after federal officials said he became Major League Baseball's biggest steroids dealer after BALCO shut down. Elite cyclist Tammy Thomas and track coach Trevor Graham have each pleaded not guilty to lying to a grand jury and federal investigators about their involvement with steroids. Troy Ellerman, a defense attorney who represented two of the BALCO figures, pleaded guilty to leaking confidential grand jury transcripts to the San Francisco Chronicle and then denying he was the leak in court documents filed under penalty of perjury. Dozens of other prominent athletes have been connected to BALCO, including New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi who told the grand jury he injected steroids purchased at BALCO and Detroit Tigers outfielder Gary Sheffield who testified that Bonds introduced him to BALCO. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Jail the bastard for life and remove his name from any record he ever set. Cheating SOB!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny green balls Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 looking at just his head you'd think he weighed 300 lbs. he has the body of hulk hogan and the head of louis anderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 looking at just his head you'd think he weighed 300 lbs. he has the body of hulk hogan and the head of louis anderson. Exactly, it's ridiculous that he's been able to get away with what he's done for so long. Anyone with half a brain cell can realise the guy has done something to have that physical stature, especially when you compare now to what he looked like before. I hope to God the cheater can finally be put where he belongs. In Jail!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCane Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 This seems to be the trend: when you cant get someone on an actual "act", go after them for their testimony. Clinton, Bonds, Libby. But now that they have something to try to nail him on, I hope they make that ****sucker squirm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Seriously, what more evidence is F'ing needed???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny green balls Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 This seems to be the trend: when you cant get someone on an actual "act", go after them for their testimony. Clinton, Bonds, Libby. But now that they have something to try to nail him on, I hope they make that ****sucker squirm. ironically, perjury carries a heavier penalty than roids. i was thinking today that if bonds is convicted, the MLB should sue him for fraud. that would send a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NIGHT STALKER Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Stephen A Smith on ESPN is trying to spin the old race card on this one...again. I'll tell you, this country is going backwards instead of forward...why can't people be wrong or right because they're wrong or right and not because they're black or white?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Stephen A Smith on ESPN is trying to spin the old race card on this one...again. I'll tell you, this country is going backwards instead of forward...why can't people be wrong or right because they're wrong or right and not because they're black or white?! just like everything else in life... its about money. If you bitch and moan about the black man being treated unfairly you can get people to give money to your cause to drive out racism. Racism is big business these days. Its no longer about civil rights. All great empires come to an end eventually. Welcome to the beginning of the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugentfan1 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 hes going to be found guilty on all of his perjury charges. hes going to jail 2 maybe 3 years easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Moses Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Barry Bonds is a POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Barry Bonds is a POS. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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