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Grand Jury Convened in Clemens Case
[SIZE=-1]New York Times, United States [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Clemens and McNamee testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February after Clemens vehemently denied McNamees assertions in the Mitchell report that he had injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone on numerous occasions from 1998 to 2001. Two weeks after the two men testified at a contentious hearing, the committee singled out Clemens and asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation into whether he had committed perjury.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The lead agent on the case is John Longmire, an F.B.I. agent for the United States attorneys office for the District of Columbia. Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent based in San Francisco who has been the lead agent on nearly all the high profile steroids cases over the past six years, is on the periphery of the Clemens investigation. It was Novitzky and federal prosecutors for the United States attorneys office for the Northern District of California who compelled McNamee in 2007 to cooperate with investigators for George Mitchell, who was conducting an investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. In exchange, McNamee was not charged with steroid distribution.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]According to one person who was interviewed in recent months as part of the federal investigation, Longmire spent much of the meeting asking questions about women who have been linked to Clemens in published reports. The person said it did not appear that investigators had developed much new information. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Investigators have also focused their attention on Houston, where Longmire, and other agents, have interviewed Shaun Kelley, the owner of a fitness center, and several of his former employees in an apparent attempt to find someone other than McNamee who would link Clemens to performance-enhancing drugs.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In addition, in an interview on Dec. 31, Kelley said that at least two of his clients had told him that they had been interviewed by federal agents.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]New York Times, United States [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Clemens and McNamee testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February after Clemens vehemently denied McNamees assertions in the Mitchell report that he had injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone on numerous occasions from 1998 to 2001. Two weeks after the two men testified at a contentious hearing, the committee singled out Clemens and asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation into whether he had committed perjury.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The lead agent on the case is John Longmire, an F.B.I. agent for the United States attorneys office for the District of Columbia. Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent based in San Francisco who has been the lead agent on nearly all the high profile steroids cases over the past six years, is on the periphery of the Clemens investigation. It was Novitzky and federal prosecutors for the United States attorneys office for the Northern District of California who compelled McNamee in 2007 to cooperate with investigators for George Mitchell, who was conducting an investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. In exchange, McNamee was not charged with steroid distribution.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]According to one person who was interviewed in recent months as part of the federal investigation, Longmire spent much of the meeting asking questions about women who have been linked to Clemens in published reports. The person said it did not appear that investigators had developed much new information. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Investigators have also focused their attention on Houston, where Longmire, and other agents, have interviewed Shaun Kelley, the owner of a fitness center, and several of his former employees in an apparent attempt to find someone other than McNamee who would link Clemens to performance-enhancing drugs.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In addition, in an interview on Dec. 31, Kelley said that at least two of his clients had told him that they had been interviewed by federal agents.[/SIZE]
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