342:, December 15, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. "Mr. McNamee was raised in the Breezy Point section of Queens, on the westward end of the Rockaway Peninsula, an area with many police officers, like his father. As a youngster Mr. McNamee was drawn to baseball and became a catcher playing at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens (in which he was the M.V.P. of the league & captain of the team and then at St. John’s University (also captain of the team) which he attended from 1986 through 1989, majoring in athletic administration, McNamee received a Masters(MS) in Sports Medicine from Long Island University (L.I.U.), according to a spokesman for St. Johns University( S.J.U.), Dominic Sianna."
242:. McNamee's attorneys argued that McNamee was compelled to cooperate by federal officials and thus his statements were protected. A federal judge agreed, throwing out all claims related to McNamee's statements to investigators on February 13, 2009, but allowing the case to proceed on statements McNamee made about Clemens to Andy Pettitte.
271:, which she did later confirm, but stated her husband was unaware of her using the drug. Pettitte admitted to also using HGH, obtaining it on one occasion from McNamee in 2002 and again in 2004 from his own father. Roger Clemens was found not guilty of all charges in the government's perjury case against him.
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