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SAN FRANCISCO — A judge Monday refused to toss out the perjury case of former Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas, who is charged with lying to a federal grand jury about using steroids.
Thomas unsuccessfully argued that prosecutors badgered her into allegedly lying when she testified she never took steroids by asking her the same questions repeatedly. Thomas also argued that her testimony wasn’t “material” to the grand jury’s investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which was the center of a massive performance-enhancing drug scandal that has ensnared baseball home run king Barry Bonds.
Thomas has pleaded not guilty to three counts of perjury and one count of obstruction.
