Feds grow 10 new charges against Barry Bonds: 14 counts of perjury and a random obstruction of justice
Ya'all remember Barry Bonds, the MLB's career and single season home run record holder? Barry's back and he continues to surpass old performances. The federal attorneys in charge of indicted the slugger found 10 new perjury charges lying around. Like an old syringe of nandrolone, they injected old material into the new upcoming court proceedings. To the New York Times site:
Barry Bonds was re-indicted Tuesday by the federal authorities in an effort to fix the original indictment in his perjury case.
A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Bonds on 14 counts of making false statements under oath about whether he used performance-enhancing drugs and one count of obstruction of justice.
What do you do when you deal with steroids? You grow -- things like charges increase.
The indictment filed Tuesday came in response to a motion Bonds’s lawyers filed in January to have the case dismissed. United States District Judge Susan Illston ruled in February that federal authorities must either narrow the indictment or bring new charges to proceed with the case.
The government responded by filing the new indictment, but none of the counts concern different testimony than in the original charges.
In November, Bonds was indicted on five felony charges — four for perjury and one for obstruction of justice — for testifying before a federal grand jury in 2003 that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs.






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