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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Thursday, February 19, 2009Your tax dollars at workI've detailed in the past just how much federal prosecutors have done in an effort to get Greg Anderson to testify, including threatening and raiding the homes of his wife, Nicole Gestas, and mother-in-law. From yesterday's NYT, however, you get a glimpse of just how desperate -- and, quite frankly, inept -- they truly are:Several years ago, it was revealed earlier this week, prosecutors sent an undercover female agent to join the gym where Gestas worked. The authorities hoped that the agent would befriend Gestas and get her to talk about Bonds, but the effort did not prove fruitful. I've seen that tactic used twice before: in the most excellent movie "Zero Effect," and on "Seinfeld." It worked like a charm in the former and, while it didn't go off as planned in the latter, at least the sought-after information was obtained. Here? Bubkis. If Bonds is acquitted, many-a-steroid hawk is going to blame a star-struck jury. Or race. Or whatever it is people blame when someone that is probably guilty of something walks. Let us remember, however, who has the burden of proof here -- the government -- and let us not forget who has seemingly bungled this thing from the get-go -- again, the government. (thanks to Pinto for the heads up) Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 11:00am Comments
christopher said...
The same tactic was used in arrested development as well, with hilarious consequences. I hope the government gets its strategies from tv shows and movies for the rest of this case. Posted 02/19 at 12:25 PM
Pete Toms said...
Made me think of The Sopranos. An undercover agent befriended Adrianna (sic?) and…well, you either watched it or you didn’t. Posted 02/19 at 12:25 PM
Jeff V. said...
I am wondering what the total bill for this fiasco is going to be when it is all said and done. I imagine its going to be a lot more then any other perjury charge on record. Shame this is baseball and not basketball I can see AI now. “Perjury…perjury, they talking about perjury. Not murder, not kindnapping…perjury.” Posted 02/19 at 02:15 PM
Jeff said...
More evidence that sports teams aren’t the only ones in need of what Simmons calls a “VP of Common Sense”. Wouldn’t it be more effective to pay some consulting firm for common sense decisions instead of wasting public money on things like the Barry Bonds trial, financing of stadiums, giving out government bailout checks, etc? Posted 02/19 at 02:15 PM
obsessivegiantscompulsive said...
They tried to do the same thing with Jason Grimsley, get him to cozy up to Bonds during BP sometime - even though Grimsley didn’t have any real relationship with Bonds - and just start talking about steroids. That just shows how stupid the investigators have been in running this inquisition. I lost all respect for them after that and have not expected anything real to come out of the trial, other than the waste of millions of our tax dollars. Yahoo Sports news reports that Benito Santiago’s testimony was very much like what Bonds said, and yet they are not pursuing him with the same dogged persistence. Why they didn’t pursue Santiago first, who could crack sooner as he has less to lose than Bonds, I don’t know, because if they have similar testimony and they convict Santiago and/or get a confession, that would be a good precedence to then go after Bonds. Plus, Anderson might have flipped on Santiago if they had approached him first about Benito, and not go full-bore on Bonds first, then they could have had that as a great precedence to go after Bonds. Posted 02/19 at 02:25 PM
GBS said...
@ matt & Jeff V. - Thanks for nearly making me do a spit-take. Funny stuff. Posted 02/19 at 02:31 PM
Fawkes said...
Obssessive, Posted 02/19 at 07:01 PM
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