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New charges allege Barry Bonds lied about steroids

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

A federal grand jury brought a longer array of perjury charges against baseball home run king Barry Bonds on Tuesday after a judge tossed out earlier allegations of lies about past steroid use.The latest indictment charges the U.S. career home run record holder with 14 counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.

“When we were last in court the government said it was going to obtain a superseding indictment and now they have done so it’s hardly surprising or news,” Allen Ruby, an attorney for Bonds, told Reuters.

The government maintains Bonds lied in 2003 when he told a previous federal grand jury investigating the San Francisco-area BALCO nutrition lab he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.

New charges allege Barry Bonds lied about steroids | Sports | Reuters