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Barry Bonds Used Steroids and Lied About It

Harry Longshanks

Harry Longshanks

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know this comes as a complete shocker to everyone, but "sources" tell ESPN that the Feds have a Bonds urine sample that proves he took steroids other than "The Clear" and "The Cream" (which he claimed under oath that he didn't know were steroids.)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3867536

Bonds reportedly used other steroids

The heat is being turned up on Barry Bonds as his perjury trial approaches.

Citing a person who has reviewed the evidence in the case, the New York Times reported on Wednesday that authorities detected anabolic steroids in urine samples linked to Bonds that they gathered in their investigation.

Bonds testified to a federal grand jury in 2003 that he used the "cream" and the "clear" but did not know that they were performance-enhancing drugs. The urine samples could prove the existence of other steroids in his body.

During that testimony, Bonds was asked if he ever took steroids, and he answered no. The government alleges that Bonds lied under oath. His perjury trial is scheduled to begin March 2.

Meanwhile, federal authorities have taken another avenue in their pursuit of Bonds.

Agents raided the home of the mother-in-law of Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson.

Madeleine Gestas is the target of a tax investigation that Anderson's lawyer says is aimed at pressuring the trainer to testify at Bonds' upcoming trial on charges on lying to a grand jury.

Mark Geragos, a lawyer for Anderson, said he believes the raid Wednesday is in response to his refusal to tell prosecutors whether Anderson would testify.

The attorney said some 20 FBI and IRS agents showed up at the Redwood City, Calif., home of Madeline Gestas armed with a search warrant and seized miscellaneous documents. Gestgas, 60, has been the subject of a tax probe, but Geragos described the raid as part of an ongoing effort by the federal government to intimidate Anderson and coerce him to cooperate in the government's case against Bonds.

"They trashed the place and took all kinds of stuff," he said. "The execution was illegal and a grotesque example of bullying."

Arlette Lee, a spokesman for the IRS, acknowledged agents had been at Gestas' home but declined comment on the nature of the activity.

Last June, the government sent a letter to Nicole Gestas, a local fitness trainer who married Anderson in the summer of 2007, notifying her that she was the target of a federal conspiracy investigation.

"How much more obvious can they get?" said Paula Canny, an attorney who worked the BALCO case and a close friend of Anderson.

Geragos said he received a letter on Monday from federal prosecutors wanting to know if Anderson is going to testify in the Bonds trial.

"They can't demand that. It's sheer bullying," Geragos said.

Anderson served two terms in federal prison for refusing to appear in front of separate grand juries during the government's investigation of Bonds. Federal prosecutors believe Anderson can testify, among other things, that calendars and diary entries that document steroid use by a "BB" is in fact Bonds.

Anderson initially served 15 days in prison in July 2006, and then again from Aug. 28, 2006, until Nov. 15, 2007, in a federal correctional institute in Dublin, Calif. He also served three months in federal prison earlier in 2006 after he pleaded guilty in the BALCO steroid scandal.

Geragos has insisted for some time that Anderson will never testify against Bonds.

"My client is never going to speak," he told ESPN.com in March of 2007.

Geragos said Anderson received a government subpoena last week demanding his testimony at trial. If he refuses to testify, he could be sent to prison again.
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NO! Say it isn't so! I am SOOOOOO surprised at this.
 
Geragos is a scum bag. Or at least will say anything when trying his cases in the press, whether true or not. Don't know if that qualifies for scum-bagness.
 
I don't believe they have a dirty urine sample at this point. It sounds like a ploy to try and get somebody to talk, just like raiding Andersons mother in laws house, pure intimidation tactics.
 
Yeah they probably don't but Bonds image has forever been tarnished before this anyway so it's not like it matters anyhow.
 
I've said before I believe he did it, I just don't care. To me there is no reason to waste all the time and money going after the guy, let it go. Move forward with the drug testing program that they have in place and penalize infractions. I'm just tired of hearing about it, that's all.
 
I hear what you're saying, MO, but remember the case isn't about him using steroids, per se, it's about his blatant perjury before the grand jury. It's a procedural case. The rationale is that you cannot permit that conduct if you want to protect the critically important purpose of the grand jury process. (Remember Scooter Libby -- same interest was vindicated there.) But to prove he committed perjury, you have to prove that he lied and did take steriods. Remember that the investigation wasn't about Bonds alone, but about a much bigger issue: BALCO and its pervasive distribution of illegal steriods. But Bond's testimony would be material to that, and therefore if he wasn't going to take five and was going to testify, he better not lie to the grand jury and obstruct its investigation when he does.
 
I understand what you're saying WSE, you're right. I guess I've had a problem with this whole thing from the start, when they were calling players to Capitol Hill to testify I was pissed. It has been a colossal waste of taxpayer money, not to mention the time that has been lost.

What do you think, if Bonds doesn't break and change his story, Anderson refuses to testify, can they convict him?
 
i'm more concerned about what the bankers took than what barry took
 
He should be stricken from the record books & never be allowed into the hall of fame.
 
Im going to work on some pics of the evolution of his head size. You would of had to of been completely naive to not see he was juiced. I still think he was the best hitter I have ever seen, pre and post 98, he would of gone to the Hall without them.
BigBarryBonds.jpg
 
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