Miguel Tejada

February 10th, 2009 filed in Baseball

Houston Astros’ All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada is the latest athlete to be charged with lying about steroids. Tejada is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday where he is expected to plead guilty to lying to congress. The charges against Tejada were outlined in documents filed in Washington federal court on Tuesday, February 10th.

From the Associated Press:

In the documents filed Tuesday, Tejada is charged with lying to investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2005 when he denied knowledge of an ex-teammate’s use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The teammate is not identified in court documents, but is referred to as having played with Tejada on the Oakland Athletics. Tejada “unlawfully withheld pertinent information from the committee because defendant Tejada, before and during his interview with the committee staff, then and there well knew that player #1, one of his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, had used steroids and HGH,” the papers state.

In fact, prosecutors charge, during spring training in 2003, Tejada had purchased a substance believed to be HGH from the player. The charges are contained in a six-page criminal information, a legal document used often when a defendant has struck a plea deal with prosecutors. The criminal information charges Tejada with making misrepresentations to Congress.

The AP also reports:

The FBI also is investigating whether Roger Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young winner, lied to Congress last year when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone.

So what do you think? Did Miguel Tejada CHEAT, or BEAT?