Letter of Apology » Entertainment Fraud http://letterofapology.com a white-collar blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en McNamee’s Box Of Blood And Vials: Not Exactly The Pumpkin Papers http://letterofapology.com/2008/02/09/mcnamees-box-of-blood-and-vials-not-exactly-the-pumpkin-papers/ http://letterofapology.com/2008/02/09/mcnamees-box-of-blood-and-vials-not-exactly-the-pumpkin-papers/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:54:48 +0000 Solomon Wisenberg http://letterofapology.com/?p=69 Those who argue that Roger Clemens set himself up for a perjury charge by agreeing to testify under oath before a Congressional Committee do not know his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, very well. To put it simply, Hardin is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in the country. I can guarantee you that Hardin warned Clemens, in excruciating detail, about the potential criminal exposure the pitching great faced if Clemens testified before Congress and there was ANY truth to Brian McNamee’s charges. I am struck by the self-confidence evident in the Clemens camp, even in the face of the box of “evidence” disclosed on Thursday by McNamee’s lawyers and their contemptible revelation on Friday that McNamee injected Clemens’ wife with a human growth hormone. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the latest details here.

]]> http://letterofapology.com/2008/02/09/mcnamees-box-of-blood-and-vials-not-exactly-the-pumpkin-papers/feed/ Congress Grandstands in Baseball Steroid Scandal http://letterofapology.com/2008/01/21/congress-grandstands-in-baseball-steroid-scandal/ http://letterofapology.com/2008/01/21/congress-grandstands-in-baseball-steroid-scandal/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:21:59 +0000 Solomon Wisenberg http://letterofapology.com/?p=16 Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, of reason.tv and Reason magazine respectively, take aim at congressional interference in Major League Baseball’s performance-enhancing drug controversy. The essay is here from yesterday’s Washington Post. 

Meanwhile, at Yahoo! Sports, Jonathan Littman highlights the IRS’s aggressive use of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001, a federal felony statute, to prosecute professional athletes for lying to government agents. Littman’s piece, here, cites my long-standing criticism of Section 1001. My original findlaw.com article on the dangers of talking to government agents, even in an informal setting, is here.

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