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Article: Not enough evidence for Palmeiro perjury charge
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 11, 2005
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WASHINGTON -- Rafael Palmeiro's reputation and future in baseball
might be murky, but lawmakers said Thursday there is not enough
evidence to prove that he lied under oath when he told Congress that
he never used steroids -- less than two months before failing a drug
test.
The House Government Reform Committee's 44-page report traces the
former Baltimore Orioles first baseman's whirlwind journey from Hall
of Fame shoo-in and persuasive Capitol Hill witness to suspended
pariah and subject of a perjury investigation.
Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.), released the report in the
same hearing room where Palmeiro sat March 17 alongside Jose Canseco,
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa and ...
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