For Miguel Tejada and Aaron Boone
At Tejada’s sentencing
“Mr. Tejada made a bad decision” in choosing to lie to congressional investigators, prosecutor Steven Durham told the court. “Sometimes the truth is quite unflattering, sometimes it’s embarrassing, but it’s not optional,”
Tejada said “I apologize to Congress, the court, to all of baseball and especially the kids,”
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay issued a sentence of one year of unsupervised release, 100 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine. Kay waived drug testing often required of other convicts on probation and said he wouldn’t restrict the Houston Astros player’s travel.
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Aaron Boone went into surgery at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET on Thursday at the Stanford University Medical Center.
Boone is undergoing open heart surgery to correct a problem with his aorta and aortic valve. The procedure is expected to last approximately three hours, according to a club spokesperson.
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