Yasiel Puig is facing a new obstruction of justice charge in connection with his involvement in an illegal sports gambling operation.
Advertisement“We are disappointed that the United States Attorney’s Office has further entrenched itself in its unfair prosecution of Yasiel Puig,” Puig’s attorney, Keri Axel,via the player’s Twitter account Friday. “There is no new conduct at issue: the new charge for alleged obstruction is based on the same unfounded allegations of the initial charge, all concerning a single Zoom interview.”
In January 2022, federal investigators interviewed Puig and his lawyer. Puig allegedly lied several times, falsely stating that he only knew the third party from baseball and not through gambling. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Puig discussed sports betting with the third party hundreds of times via phone and text message.
Axel said at the time that “significant new evidence has come to light that prompted this change in plea.” As part of the original plea deal, Puig had also agreed to pay a fine of at least $55,000. In a statement following his initial guilty plea, his agent Lisette Carnet said Puig “came to the interview feeling rushed, unprepared, without criminal counsel with him, and also lacked his own interpreter. Given his history growing up in authoritarian Cuba, government interviews are triggering and only worsen his ADHD symptoms and other mental health struggles, for which he is in treatment.”
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