Former Dodger Yasiel Puig has accused federal prosecutors of racial bias in the way they treated him and other Black people in an illegal gambling probe.
When an agent from the Internal Revenue Service first questioned former Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig as part of a sports gambling investigation, the agent opened with a stern warning: If you lie, you will be charged with a federal crime.
“They didn’t take into account his cultural background, his personal experiences or even his capacity to understand the process,” Puig’s agent, Lisette Carnet of Leona Sports Agency, said at the news conference. “They gave him one interview, and during that interview when he tried to rehabilitate his statements after further memory recall, they shut it down.”
After backing out of the plea agreement, Puig, 32, now faces a charge of obstruction of justice in addition to the original charge of making false statements to federal officials, according to a superseding indictment.
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