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Kirk Radomski says he mailed HGH to Roger Clemens'
house
Brian McNamee called his friend Kirk Radomski in
late 2002 or early 2003, and asked him to send a
package of human growth hormone to the Texas home of
Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens, Radomski told
Wednesday.
Radomski sent “at least one package” to William
Roger Clemens, in care of Brian McNamee, to Clemens’
address, and says he may have sent additional
packages to the home.
“I said from day one, the government has known I
sent packages to Roger Clemens’ house,” Radomski
said. “But I couldn’t find any receipts to prove
that until now.”
As the News first reported on its Web site late
Tuesday, Radomski has passed the receipts from the
shipment to Clemens’ home on to the federal
government, where it could now become a pivotal
piece of evidence in the legal hurricane swirling
around Clemens and McNamee.
The pitcher is under federal investigation for
perjury and has struggled to get control of a
defamation case he brought against McNamee in
January, after it emerged that McNamee had accused
Clemens of using performance-enhancing drugs.
The receipts, coupled with other circumstantial
evidence, could play a role in a perjury trial, says
one lawyer close to the investigation.
“Roger has spoken 72 times and said a thousand
different things,” the lawyer said. “He’s ruined
himself as a witness. You have a massive public
figure who will not be able to take the stand. This
is his ‘get-in-jail-free card.’”
Clemens’ attorney Rusty Hardin disagreed, saying
even if Radomski sent a package to the Rocket’s home;
it doesn’t mean the package was intended for the
pitcher’s use.
“It’s a non-story,” Hardin said. “All this means
nothing. The fact is, Roger never took HGH or
steroids.”
McNamee has told federal investigators that he never
received the shipment of HGH he ordered from
Radomski, a former Mets clubhouse attendant who
rocked baseball with his disclosures of drug use in
the game, to Clemens’ Houston home in late 2002 or
early 2003 and that he did not sign for the package.
“Somebody signed for it,” Radomski told the News.
“Brian didn’t sign for it, so who signed for it?”
McNamee forgot about ordering drugs from Radomski,
who told investigators about the shipment almost two
years ago, because he never received the package.
“You’re not going to remember every single little
thing,” Radomski said of McNamee, who told
congressional investigators early this year that he
had injected Clemens’ wife Debbie with HGH of the
type Radomski typically distributed, in the presence
of the pitcher. “I had this receipt but I couldn’t
find it.”
Radomski found the record of that shipment and
others this weekend, stashed away under a television
set in his Long Island home, where it escaped the
clutches of federal agents who busted him.
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