SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tears streaming from her eyes, Barry Bonds’ former personal shopper became the first and only one of the government’s 23 witnesses at his federal trial to say she saw the all-time home run leader getting an injection from his trainer.
Kathy Hoskins was the first eyewitness to testify that Bonds’ personal trainer — Greg Anderson, who was later convicted of dealing steroids — injected the slugger. She said Thursday that the scene unfolded at Bonds’ well-appointed Bay Area home in 2002. As part of her job, she packed the baseball star’s clothes for road trips.
Anderson came into the bedroom as she was filling a suitcase.
“Barry was like, ‘Let’s do it right here,’” she testified, using a tissue to repeatedly dab at her eyes and brow.
“‘This is Katie. That’s my girl. She ain’t going to say nothing to nobody,’” she quoted Bonds as saying. “So Greg shot him in the belly button.”
“It was a regular, normal-size syringe,” she said.
Hoskins said she didn’t ask about the injection, but Bonds volunteered that it was “a little something, something for when I go on the road. You can’t detect it. You can’t catch it.”
Bonds is charged with four counts of making false statements and obstruction of justice for telling a federal grand jury in 2003 that Anderson never provided him with steroids and human growth hormone, and that only physicians injected him.
Wearing a boyish shirt and purple necktie, her long, braided hair pulled back, Hoskins accused her brother — former Bonds’ business partner Steve Hoskins — of telling her story to federal prosecutors, causing her to have to testify against Bonds.
“He threw me under the bus,” she said.