WASHINGTON —A man testified Monday he saw Roger Clemens at a 1998 Jose Canseco pool party that the former pitcher has denied attending — one of the false statements prosecutors allege Clemens made in his 2008 congressional deposition.
Prosecutors showed jurors a photo of the then 11-year-old Alexander Lowrey on the deck of the pool, next to a smiling Clemens. The former pitcher’s hair is bleach-blond, which is how Lowrey, now 25, said he recalled it. At the time, Clemens and Canseco were teammates with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Brian McNamee, Clemens’ longtime strength and conditioning coach, has testified he overheard a conversation in the team’s clubhouse that season between Clemens and Canseco about steroids. McNamee claims he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, 2000 and 2001; Clemens’ denials of those claims at a 2008 House hearing and deposition led to his indictment for lying to Congress.
“I never was at the party,” Clemens said in his congressional deposition. Later, he said, “I wasn’t here at this — at a party that he had. I could have gone by there after a golf outing. So — but I was not at this party.” Clemens’ lawyers have said that Clemens was golfing that day.
Earlier Monday, McNamee told jurors that he provided human growth hormone to current Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte and former infielder Chuck Knoblauch. McNamee also testified former Yankees pitcher Mike Stanton obtained HGH from drug dealer Kirk Radomski, after McNamee put them in touch. Pettitte and Knoblauch told congressional investigators McNamee injected them with HGH.
Prosecutors finished their redirect questioning of McNamee, who previously had not been allowed to say he provided other players with HGH after the judge ruled such information could prejudice the jury.
