WASHINGTON - When Andy Pettitte gives a sworn deposition to staff members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, lawyers for his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, say they know part of what he will say.
Pettitte and McNamee talked in 2001 and 2002 about Roger Clemens's use of steroids and human growth hormone, McNamee's lawyers, Earl Ward and Richard Emery, said yesterday.
They said Pettitte, who has acknowledged receiving HGH from McNamee in 2002, will provide the first account of contemporaneous conversations with McNamee about Clemens's use of performance-enhancing drugs in earlier years.
Clemens's lawyer in Washington responded with another strong denial that Clemens had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. "Let me be clear: Roger Clemens never took HGH and he never took steroids," Larry A. Breuer said.
Pettitte's deposition, originally scheduled for today, was moved to Monday, a day before Clemens is to talk to committee staff members, the committee announced.
"Mr. Pettitte is cooperating voluntarily with the committee," Henry A. Waxman, the California Democrat who is chairman of the committee wrote in a statement.
Pettitte's lawyers did not return calls for comment.
According to a lawyer familiar with the matter, Jim Murray, an agent for Clemens, has hired a lawyer and has been asked to meet with congressional investigators about his conversations with McNamee concerning Clemens.
Chuck Knoblauch, the former Yankee second baseman, is scheduled to lead off the revised schedule for depositions or transcribed interviews Friday. McNamee will appear Feb. 7 and Kirk Radomski, a former Mets clubhouse attendant who says he supplied drugs to dozens of major league baseball players, on Feb. 12. The depositions are private.
