Report: Pettitte's wife key to case
Laura Pettitte is expected to testify in the Roger Clemens case.
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If there is a Roger Clemens trial, it could be a family affair for Andy Pettitte, the New York Post reported Saturday.
The Yankees pitcher is considered to be a key witness against Clemens, but he should expect to be joined by his wife, Laura, on the witness stand.
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How did Roger Clemens get here? See the timeline of events and look back at his career in pictures.According to a source deeply involved with the 2008 congressional hearing, Laura Pettitte’s memory of Andy Pettitte telling her about two separate conversations with Clemens regarding HGH use were a key to the case against Clemens.
“We had two people telling two different stories,” the source said of Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee. “Then you had Pettitte — who you would think might lie for his friend — back up McNamee’s story. Clemens said Pettitte 'misremembered,’ but that didn’t add up when Pettitte’s wife remembered the conversation in 1999.”
Laura Pettitte gave a sworn affidavit before the 2008 hearing. In it she said, “In 1999 or 2000, Andy told me that he had had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger admitted to him using human growth hormone.”
That backed up Pettitte’s memory of talking to Clemens at his house in Texas and Clemens telling him he had used HGH. Six years later, Clemens would tell Pettitte he was mistaken and he never said that but told Pettitte he had said his wife, Debbie, had used HGH.
At Yankee Stadium Friday, Pettitte said he did not want to talk about Clemens’ indictment, which came down Thursday.
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“I have nothing to say about that,” Pettitte said. “If y’all want to talk about me, I’d be more than happy to — my injury or what I’m doing.”
Pettitte surely stayed silent on the advice of his lawyers. There are 105 pages of testimony from Pettitte, though, from Feb. 4, 2008. In it, he recounts the conversations with his former friend about his HGH use. Clemens on Friday told WEEI radio in Boston that he no longer speaks with Pettitte.
Pettitte’s testimony certainly has been dissected by federal investigators and it is damning for Clemens. According to someone in the room with Pettitte that day, he came across as honest and believable.
The people overseeing the investigation were convinced of Pettitte’s honesty when he told them about his own HGH use in 2004 that had previously been unreported. The Mitchell Report included Pettitte’s use in 2002 but he told the lawyers deposing him of a day in 2004 when he injected himself twice.
Laura Pettitte was asked to give an affidavit after her husband told the committee staff she was the only person he had told about Clemens’ admission to him in 1999 and his denial in 2005. The conversation in 2005 came after the congressional hearings into steroid use made famous by Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro.
Read more in the New York Post.
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