Bonds Indicted on Perjury and Obstruction

[jwmorrice]

Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges

PAUL ELIAS

Associated Press

November 15, 2007 at 5:21 PM EST

The Globe and Mail

San Francisco — Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, culminating a four-year federal investigation into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury looking into steroid use by elite athletes.

The indictment came three months after the 43-year-old Bonds passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's career home run leader. Bonds parted ways with the San Francisco Giants after the season.

While Bonds was chasing Aaron, a grand jury was working behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment.

 

[shack]

Cool.

Let's see if he speaks to the prosecutors the same way he speaks to reporters. I wanna hear him say, "That's a stupid question."

 

[Esco!]

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Those are serious charges.

Jail time perhaps???

 

[shack]

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Those are serious charges.

Jail time perhaps???

With resulting no HOF time perhaps???

 

[The Oracle]

Bonds just hasn't played this right from the beginning.Look at mcguire he did the right thing.Retire and keep your mouth shut.Look at Giambi, He admits he took them (to the grand jury) co-operates with Selig and all is forgiven.

It's bond's arrogance that is his undoing.I'm just interested how long he will keep this up.

 

[Esco!]

Bonds just hasn't played this right from the beginning.Look at mcguire he did the right thing.Retire and keep your mouth shut.Look at Giambi, He admits he took them (to the grand jury) co-operates with Selig and all is forgiven.

It's bond's arrogance that is his undoing.I'm just interested how long he will keep this up.

Does anyone else get the feeling the authorities are out to get him??????

Or is that just me???

 

[mac]

5 counts of perjury carrying a total maximum term ot 30 years in jail. This will become the next OJ trial for sure. B-O-R-I-N-G

 

[RTRD]

It was his arrogance...

It's bond's arrogance that is his undoing.I'm just interested how long he will keep this up.

...from the very beginning that led him down this path...he resented the accolades that McGwire received when he broke the HR record while on steroids. Bonds (and everybody else not blind) knew McGwire was on juice....and Bonds also knew that as a far superior athlete, he'd smash McGwire's record if he took the juice as well.

Bottom line - it wasn't enough for Bonds to be acknowledged the best player in baseball...he wanted to be worshiped.

Then...in the grand jury testimony...rather than admit what he knew, apologize and life go on (a la Giambi), he has to insult everyones intelligence.

So...now he is going to go to jail, if but for a minute or two. And while he never tested positive for anything, history will not care. This will be just as though he did.

Too bad they didn't get his ass before he broke Aaron's record...what a world class asshole....serves him right...

 

[Pargolfer]

Maybe Barry and OJ can share a cell...

Two of my most unfavorite guys are looking like they are facing time in the slammer...."would you please bend over and pick up the soap boyzzzzzzzzzz"..Jail will look good on both of them...

 

[Esco!]

...he resented the accolades that McGwire received when he broke the HR record while on steroids. Bonds (and everybody else not blind) knew McGwire was on juice....and Bonds also knew that as a far superior athlete, he'd smash McGwire's record if he took the juice as well.

A lot of truth to what you're saying MLAM, except for one minor detail you leave out.
And I say that as someone who has spent his life around gyms and juice-heads.

McGwire's single season homerun record was way ahead of Bonds, well before Bond started to juice.
Bonds then juiced and he went ahead of McGwire, this much is true, but that was after McGwire was past his prime.

So, if both had the same head start and juiced at exactly the same time, my guess is McGwire would kick Bond's ass 6 ways till Sunday

But thats just my personal opinion

 

[BottomsUp]

A lot of truth to what you're saying MLAM, except for one minor detail you leave out.
And I say that as someone who has spent his life around gyms and juice-heads.

McGwire's single season homerun record was way ahead of Bonds, well before Bond started to juice.
Bonds then juiced and he went ahead of McGwire, this much is true, but that was after McGwire was past his prime.

So, if both had the same head start and juiced at exactly the same time, my guess is McGwire would kick Bond's ass 6 ways till Sunday

But thats just my personal opinion

I don't quite get that logic. Fact is Bonds was 2 years older than McGwire when he broke the record vs. when McGwire hit 70. So, if McGwire was past his prime, so was Bonds.

 

[Esco!]

I don't quite get that logic. Fact is Bonds was 2 years older than McGwire when he broke the record vs. when McGwire hit 70. So, if McGwire was past his prime, so was Bonds.

Yeah give or take a year or two, who's counting mate???

 

[bsi]

All this for breaking a sports rule? Jail time? Serious government time investigating and prosecuting, including US senators?

It's just a game for Christs sake. It's entertainment. Bonds personally is an asshole but it really is not important enough to attract all this attention.

This should have been handled within MLB, not through the justice system.

 

[Esco!]

This should have been handled within MLB, not through the justice system.

Good point except we dont live in that world, this is the insane world of whatever.

Everything goes!!

 

[Ref]

While Bonds was chasing Aaron, a grand jury was working behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment.

In order to reap the fanfare and media attention surrounding the hoerun record chase I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Bud and the boys made a backroom deal to delay the grand jury's announcement until after the season.

If I had a choice I'd rather send Bud to hell for being more of an asshole than Bonds.

 

[shack]

All this for breaking a sports rule? Jail time?

Wrong. It is for lying to a Grand Jury while under oath.

The funny thing is that he had immunity for anything he said. If he admitted he used or even dealt steroids they couldn't touch him.

The only thing he wasn't immune from was lying, which is exactly what he did. Pompous idiot.

 

[BottomsUp]

This whole thing is the biggest joke I've ever seen. Selig and the owners have known for at least 15 years that players have been on steroids. Selig needed the home run derby to get the fans back after the strike. The owners were all too happy to turn a blind eye to it all, since they needed to bring fans back to generate profits. What better way than to play long ball...and it worked perfectly. The players involved bought in for big contracts since they were the star attraction...making big bucks, cranking out homers, and shooting steroids. To bring down the players and not Selig and the owners is hypocrisy at its finest. MLB is simply using the players as scapegoats for their own shameful and inexcusable behaviour. If anyone should serve jail time it should that jerkoff Selig.

And BTW how are they going to convict Bonds, when he's never tested positive?

 

[The Oracle]

Wrong. It is for lying to a Grand Jury while under oath.

The funny thing is that he had immunity for anything he said. If he admitted he used or even dealt steroids they couldn't touch him.

The only thing he wasn't immune from was lying, which is exactly what he did. Pompous idiot.

excellant point and exactly what I have been saying all along.

Now what happens to his personal trainer.Isn't he still in jail for refusing to testify in front of the grand jury. I mean bonds must be making it worth his while to sit in jail all this time.

 

[The Oracle]

Just read that Greg Anderson, Bond's personal trainer and the guy who allegedly gave him his juice,was released today from prison. And no he never rated on him. Must have been handsomely rewarded.

 

[shack]

And BTW how are they going to convict Bonds, when he's never tested positive?

Again, he is being indicted for lying to a Grand Jury, not for doing the drugs.

He admitted four years ago doing the drugs but he was never convicted on that. He claims he didn't know exactly what he was taking, which is BS. Federal investigators don't like being lied to.

Even if Anderson doesn't squeal, evidently Bonds said a lot to his then-girlfriend.