Clemens’ ex-trainer allegedly has lied before

[Gunny]

Associated Press
updated 5:00 p.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Detectives believed the former New York Yankees trainer who says he injected Roger Clemens with steroids lied to them during the 2001 investigation of a possible rape, according to documents released Tuesday by police.

Police said Brian McNamee denied having sex with a possibly drugged woman in a hotel pool, even though security guards and other witnesses said they saw him.

McNamee hired a New York attorney, who called detectives to arrange an interview. “I explained to him that his client did talk with me once, and he lied to me,” St. Petersburg Police Detective Donald Crotty wrote in a report.

The state attorney’s office, however, decided not to press charges.

Clemens cited the incident as an example of McNamee’s dishonesty in a defamation lawsuit filed Sunday in Texas.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner says his former personal trainer lied to baseball investigator George Mitchell to avoid prosecution when he said he injected Clemens at least 16 times with steroids and human growth hormone in 1998, 2000 and 2001. Clemens acknowledged receiving injections from McNamee but said they were vitamin B-12 and the painkiller lidocaine.

“The significant thing is, when this guy’s rear end is in trouble, does he lie?” said Rusty Hardin, Clemens’ attorney.

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Just one more log on the fire.