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Barry Bonds' legal team is preparing for the San Francisco slugger to be indicted as soon as next week and has begun plotting his defense.
Attorney Laura Enos told The Associated Press on Friday that Bonds, second on the career home run list, could be charged with tax evasion and perjury.
Enos, Bonds' personal attorney, also said the lawyers believe the grand jury investigating the star player will expire next Thursday.
"We are very prepared," Enos said. "We have excellent tax records and we are very comfortable that he has not shortchanged the government at all."
Also Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to free Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, from prison. A federal judge on July 5 ordered Anderson jailed until he agreed to testify before the grand jury investigating Bonds.
Anderson was one of five people convicted in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal. The Burlingame-based nutritional supplement company was exposed as a steroid laboratory for top athletes.
The grand jury is probing Bonds for allegedly lying to a different grand jury that led to Anderson's conviction.
Bonds testified in 2003 that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs and said Anderson had given him flaxseed oil and arthritis balm, not steroids.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/07/14/bonds.braces.ap/index.html
Attorney Laura Enos told The Associated Press on Friday that Bonds, second on the career home run list, could be charged with tax evasion and perjury.
Enos, Bonds' personal attorney, also said the lawyers believe the grand jury investigating the star player will expire next Thursday.
"We are very prepared," Enos said. "We have excellent tax records and we are very comfortable that he has not shortchanged the government at all."
Also Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to free Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, from prison. A federal judge on July 5 ordered Anderson jailed until he agreed to testify before the grand jury investigating Bonds.
Anderson was one of five people convicted in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal. The Burlingame-based nutritional supplement company was exposed as a steroid laboratory for top athletes.
The grand jury is probing Bonds for allegedly lying to a different grand jury that led to Anderson's conviction.
Bonds testified in 2003 that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs and said Anderson had given him flaxseed oil and arthritis balm, not steroids.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/07/14/bonds.braces.ap/index.html
