LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors are rejecting claims of anti-Black bias in their criminal case against former Dodger Yasiel Puig, calling the allegations part of a last-ditch attempt to avoid trial — one that also included a "personal appeal" to the prosecutors' boss with a request that it be kept secret.
Puig faces charges of lying to federal authorities and obstruction of justice in the investigation of a sports gambling operation run by former minor league baseball player Wayne Nix.
At a news conference and in court filings, Puig's attorneys have alleged federal prosecutors were "inclined to view Black men as untruthful" and treated white defendants in the investigation differently.
