Barry Bonds is in more trouble. Well, he’s in the same trouble, just even worse.
Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice last Nov. 15, but U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than lumping several alleged falsehoods into single counts.
The new indictment doesn’t add any new alleged falsehoods.
The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.
Stick a fork in his baseball career – it’s time for this guy to concentrate on something he’s been running away from for almost a decade. As was the case with Michael Vick and his dog fighting indictment, the feds usually don’t prosecute unless they have an airtight case. Bonds is going to need the mother of all Houdini tricks to get out of this one.
