Lawyer: PA Horse Trainer's Doping Case Not a Crime

A lawyer for a horse trainer charged with doping at a Pennsylvania racetrack says federal prosecutors are making a crime out of something routinely handled by regulators.

Nevada lawyer Alan Pincus represents 43-year-old trainer Patricia Rogers of Hummelstown.

She is one of three trainers arrested Friday at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, and led into federal court still in their barn clothes.

A timer at the track is also charged, for allegedly taking bribes to report phony workout times.

Pincus says the state Horse Racing Commission already looked at the allegations and suspended Rogers for a time.

He calls it "a new theory'' for prosecutors to bring a criminal case.

But federal prosecutors say the doping defrauds bettors, both at the track and those watching on simulcast.
 

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