If this is true, it could blow this story wide open:
Brian McNamee’s lawyers are promising to deliver a bombshell Thursday against Roger Clemens.
McNamee, Clemens’s former trainer, will produce “corroborative physical evidence” for congressional investigators that he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, the trainer’s lawyers said Wednesday.
The lawyers would not characterize the evidence further but promised to release it publicly after McNamee gives a deposition to the House Oversight committee on Thursday.
Clemens gave a sworn deposition Tuesday denying he had ever used steroids or human-growth hormone.
“This will totally corroborate that Brian has been telling the truth from the beginning,” Earl Ward, McNamee’s lead lawyer, said in a telephone interview. “It takes it out of the category of he-said, he-said.”
As for why we haven’t heard about this before:
Ward and Emery both said federal criminal authorities have had the new evidence for some period of time. However, they said McNamee had not provided it to former Senator George J. Mitchell or the federal investigators last year.
McNamee was known to feel betrayed by Clemens;s secretly taping a phone call with him on Jan. 7.
“It’s evidence that was turned over to the federal government and that they’ve had for some time,” Ward said.
Well, this should be interesting.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:49 am
[...] I noted yesterday, lawyers for Brian McNamee are claiming that their client has physical evidence that corroborates [...]