The lawyers told U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton at a hearing that unspecified developments that prosecutors made them aware of over the last few weeks raised issues about the chain-of-custody of the evidence.

Another lawyer for Clemens, Michael Attanasio, said that the sealed information mentions McNamee, his wife, and his household - which is where he kept the physical evidence against Clemens.

This is still going on? Why?

McNamee kept a low profile until October of 2001, when he was suddenly in the New York tabloids. According to police reports, an employee of a St. Petersburg, Fla., hotel where the Yankees were staying had noticed a man and a woman apparently having sex in the hotel pool, while another man looked on from a few feet away. All three were naked in the pool. One of the men, Charles Wonsowicz, the former St. John's pitcher who was now the Yankees' video technician, left immediately when confronted by the employee. The other, McNamee, continued to hold on to the woman until the hotel employee asked him to leave again, according to police documents.

"You mean now?" he said. McNamee got out of the pool, leaving behind the woman, who witnesses said appeared "out of it." She said to the hotel employee, "Help me," and then McNamee pulled her out of the pool and tried to put clothes back on her.

Employees called police, and an ambulance also arrived. It turned out the woman had ingested a near fatal dose of GHB, a powerful drug used by bodybuilders, teenage "ravers" and date rapists -- who have used it to incapacitate victims. A bottle of the GHB was found on the pool deck.

Police investigated the incident as a rape and questioned McNamee the next morning.

The report of Detective Don Crotty, who questioned McNamee, cites McNamee as lying several times during the questioning: about where he first met the woman, saying it was the hotel lobby rather than another bar, as other witnesses said; and about his whereabouts over the course of the night. McNamee didn't mention that he was with the woman with several other Yankees players in Chuck Knoblauch's room. He denied to police that he even knew Wonsowicz, his college teammate and fellow Yankees employee. He said Wonsowicz looked familiar, and he might be a "green fly," ballplayer slang for a hanger-on who looks for autographs.

For more than a month in 2001, McNamee was a suspect. However, no charges were filed. Early in the investigation, the woman lied to investigators about her reason for being at the Renaissance Vinoy hotel -- she was having an affair with another Yankees employee who was married, and didn't want to reveal that. When investigators realized this, they declined to pursue the investigation of McNamee. A few months later, the Yankees quietly let McNamee go. But Clemens and Pettitte kept using him as their personal trainer

Given everything we know about McNamee, how much more "tarnished" can he get?

Given everything we know about McNamee, how much more "tarnished" can he get?

Clemens and Pettitte kept using him as their personal trainer

Key Figures in the Clemens Perjury Trial
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press
April 14, 2012 (AP)
Some key figures at Roger Clemens' trial, starting Monday, on charges that the former pitcher lied when he told Congress he never used steroids and human growth hormone: ...

— U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton: The judge is a former athlete himself. He went to college on a football scholarship and revealed in a Clemens hearing last year that he and Ken Griffey Sr. grew up playing ball together in their hometown of Donora, Pa.

This is still going on? Why?

Given everything we know about McNamee, how much more "tarnished" can he get?


I agree 100%. But the question that I then can't adequately answer to my own personal satisfaction is, How come
Clemens and Pettitte kept using him as their personal trainer

BTW, Donora is also the hometown of Stan Musial, who shares a birthday and birthplace with Ken Griffey Jr IIRC.

Because he got them good steroids.

I don't really have much doubt that McNamee was providing them this stuff.

Defense Lawyers Doing Their Jobs
(film at 11)

I agree 100%. But the question that I then can't adequately answer to my own personal satisfaction is, How come
Clemens and Pettitte kept using him as their personal trainer?

So you think Pettitte lied under oath when he said he had never used steroids?