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A Texas gym owner said he was asked by FBI agents in late March if he ever gave performance-enhancing drugs to Roger Clemens.
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Kelly Blair, the owner of 1-on-1 Elite Personal Fitness in Pasadena, located just outside of Houston, told the New York Times on Tuesday that he met with two FBI agents at his home as part of a perjury investigation of Clemens.
Blair said the agents also questioned him about his connections to several other baseball players, the Times reported in its Thursday edition.
Published reports have linked Blair to providing Andy Pettitte's father, Tom, with human growth hormone. Tom Pettitte has said he has taken HGH to treat health problems.
Blair told investigators he did not provide Clemens or Tom Pettitte with performance-enhancing drugs.
"The whole thing is they're trying to find someone who supplied Roger Clemens," Blair told the Times in a telephone interview. "This has nothing to do with Andy Pettitte. They were questioning me about Roger. I've never met the dude. It was a waste of their time, basically."
"They were bothering a guy that had nothing to do with it," he said.
Blair's meeting with federal authorities was first reported Tuesday by ESPN.com.
In February, the FBI opened a perjury investigation of Clemens after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to the Justice Department.
The letter asked the Justice Department to look into the differing accounts of Clemens and Brian McNamee, a former trainer to Clemens and Pettitte. McNamee has said that he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH on numerous occasions from 1998 to 2001.
