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Lead BALCO investigator on witness stand – AP
Jeff Novitzky, the tall, unflappable lead investigator of the government’s nine-year sports doping investigation will likely fold himself back into the witness stand for a second day as the lead witness in the Barry Bonds’ criminal trial.
Sipping from a ubiquitous bottle of water, Novitzky is scheduled to continue sparing with Bonds’ tenacious lawyer Allen Ruby on Wednesday, who failed to unnerve Novitzky during a late afternoon cross examination Tuesday of the Food and Drug Administration agent.
For the third time in as many steroids-related federal trials in San Francisco, prosecutors called Novitzky as their first witness to lay out for a jury how he came to investigate the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, known as BALCO. Novitzky worked for the IRS at the time.
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Feds submit more evidence in Bonds perjury case – AP
Federal prosecutors are fighting to show the jury in Barry Bonds’ perjury trial a trove of evidence alleging the slugger mistreated his wife, girlfriends and other people around him.
They submitted in a court filing Tuesday grand jury transcripts and interviews investigators conducted with several witnesses that they plan to call during the trial scheduled to start March 21.
The witnesses include Bonds’ former mistress, Kimberly Bell, his personal doctor and a childhood friend who served as his assistant and personal shopper during his playing days.
All three have told investigators that Bonds mistreated his domestic help and his personal trainer Greg Anderson, who is refusing to testify at the former Giant’s trial.
Defense lawyers are objecting to their statements as irrelevant to the perjury case.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
