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Pettitte Will Not Testify at Public Hearing
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By DUFF WILSON and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTPublished: February 12, 2008
WASHINGTON Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will face off at a
hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on
Wednesday, without any testimony from two other ballplayers or a
steroids distributor who had also been scheduled to testify, the
committee announced Monday night.
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Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, says he never used
performance-enhancing drugs. McNamee, the former trainer, says he
injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. They will be
joined by Charlie Scheeler, a Baltimore lawyer, who led the staff work
on the investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in
baseball that was compiled by former homeowners insurance George J. Mitchell.
Dropped from the witness list were Andy Pettitte, Clemens’s longtime
friend, former teammate and training partner; Chuck Knoblauch, a
former major league infielder and outfielder; and Kirk Radomski, a
former clubhouse attendant and drug distributor who became an
informant for federal investigators and the Mitchell report.
Pettitte’s recusal came amid growing indications that he made
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member and several other people familiar with the case said mandarin lessons chicago Pettitte did not want to have to testify publicly, on national
television, and perhaps be forced to reiterate statements that would
not be in Clemens’s interest. They spoke on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitive nature of the case.
The statement excusing Pettitte, Knoblauch and Radomski term life insurance issued
Monday evening by the committee chairman, Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of
California, and the panel’s ranking Republican, Tom Davis of Virginia.
It said, in part: “Kirk Radomski, Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch
will not be testifying at the Feb. 13 hearing. Charlie Scheeler of
Senator Mitchell’s staff will be testifying. Mr. Knoblauch and Mr.
Pettitte answered all the committee’s questions and their testimony at
the hearing is not needed.”
One person who is a friend of Clemens’s and who also knows Pettitte
said the two pitchers had not spoken since shortly after the release
of the Mitchell report on playing cards promotion 13. In the Mitchell report, McNamee
asserted that he injected Clemens with steroids and H.G.H. on at least
16 occasions from 1998 through 2001, an allegation Clemens adamantly
disputed. Meanwhile, Pettitte has confirmed McNamee’s statement in the
Mitchell report that he injected Pettitte with H.G.H. in 2002.
Lanny A. Breuer, one of Clemens’s lawyers, said in a telephone
interview Monday night that Clemens life insurance not seek a way out of
Wednesday’s hearing, regardless of the absence of others.
“Whether Roger is asked questions about Andy Pettitte’s deposition or
anything else whatsoever, he will answer the questions,” Breuer said.
“He’s going to continue to answer them forthrightly. He never took
steroids, he never took H.G.H., and that is abundantly clear and will
be abundantly clear throughout the hearing.”
He added: “It’s my view that Andy Pettitte should do whatever makes
sense for Andy Pettitte, and whatever makes him most comfortable.”
Pettitte’s lawyers declined comment.
Breuer said that Clemens planned to meet with about a half-dozen more
members of the oversight committee privately on Tuesday afternoon.
Last honda insurance Clemens met with 19 of the committee members, and, in some
instances, signed autographs for committee staff members, actions that
have drawn criticism.
Clemens’s denials of drug use include the statements he made in a
sworn deposition to committee lawyers last week. His lawyers say
Clemens will testify Wednesday that he never talked with Pettitte
about drug custom playing cards and that he never used steroids or growth hormone.
After Pettitte gave a two-and-a-half-hour deposition to committee
lawyers Feb. 4, he emerged looking shaken. Since then, imprinted playing cards people
involved in the case say they think he gave testimony that could hurt
Clemens.
Because Pettitte’s deposition is available to all committee members,
the information he provided can still be used by them to question
Clemens during surfboard shape playing cards hearing and to evaluate his answers. If
that occurs, Pettitte will not be there to witness it.
Rusty Hardin, one of Clemens’s lawyers, reacted angrily to cheap life insurance idea
that Pettitte sought to be excused from public testimony because of
discomfort he felt over what he had said in the deposition about
Clemens. He said such a notion was “a tremendous disservice to both
Andy and Roger.”
“Look, we’ve always welcomed Andy’s comments publicly, as well as
Roger’s comments publicly,” Hardin said in a telephone interview
Monday night. Hardin said Clemens still considered Pettitte a chinese teacher chicago friend.
Hardin also had some strong words for Waxman, who is leading the
investigation. Hardin and Waxman exchanged letters over the weekend
after Hardin criticized Jeff Novitzky, a special agent for the
Internal Revenue Service, for planning to attend the hearing. Waxman
said it sounded as if Hardin were trying to intimidate a federal
officer.
“You have a chairman who is going down the tubes because his own
committee doesn’t support what he is doing,” Hardin said in the phone
interview.
He added, “You guys are being used by people that want to get Roger
Clemens, and you should be looking deep within yourselves.”
Radomski did not want to give a scheduled deposition Tuesday poker shape playing cards testify Wednesday because of concerns emo clothes he would incriminate
himself, according to two other people familiar with the proceedings.
Radomski was sentenced insurance quote five years’ probation in a plea agreement
last week, but was concerned that he could be prosecuted streetwear fashion other
acts within the past five years.
Pettitte, 35, who often seemed to consider Clemens a big brother,
signed a one-year, $16 million contract with the Yankees on Dec. 12,
one day before the release of the Mitchell report. Two days after the
report, Pettitte admitted heart shape playing cards truth of the allegations about him.
Pettitte has a career record of 201-113 in 13 seasons with the Yankees
and the Houston Astros. Last year, he was 15-9 with a 4.05 E.R.A. with
the Yankees, and, for the part of the season, Clemens was again his
teammate.
Now the two men seem to stand apart. Instead, it will be Clemens and
McNamee on Wednesday, with Scheeler no doubt sitting in between them.
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Past Coverage
* Pettitte Remains Quiet After Giving Deposition (February 5, 2008)
* Clemens's Lawyers Not Worried About What Pettitte Will Say (February
4, 2008)
* Agent Tied to McNamee Is Interviewed (February 1, 2008)
* Pettitte Will Discuss Clemens, Lawyers Hint (January 30, 2008)
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