http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-fire-scouting-director/article_b529088f-70c3-51c5-bab2-106afa1d2a12.html
By Robert Patrick, Derrick Goold
St. Louis Post Dispatch
July 3, 2015
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals have terminated the contract of their
scouting director, Chris Correa, as investigations continue into alleged
hacking of a Houston Astros database.
A Cardinals’ lawyer, James G. Martin, confirmed the move Thursday, saying
Correa already had been on an “imposed leave of absence.” Martin declined
to comment on the reason. And he would not say whether any employee has
admitted hacking the Astros, citing ongoing investigations by the club,
Major League Baseball and the FBI.
Correa declined to comment.
In a prepared statement, Correa’s lawyer, Nicholas Williams, wrote: “Mr.
Correa denies any illegal conduct. The relevant inquiry should be what
information did former St. Louis Cardinals employees steal from the St.
Louis Cardinals organization prior to joining the Houston Astros, and who
in the Houston Astros organization authorized, consented to, or benefited
from that roguish behavior?”
Giles Kibbe, the attorney for the Astros, reaffirmed an earlier denial
that neither the Houston organization nor any previous Cardinals employees
now with the Astros had taken anything proprietary from the Cardinals.
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