Major League Baseball leak investigation focusing on insurance companies
New York Times |
Aug. 25, 2010 1:08 p.m.
"As the financial reports of a sixth team, the Texas Rangers, were leaked to Deadspin.com on Tuesday, Major League Baseball was focusing its investigation on insurance companies that do business with clubs, said two baseball executives who were not authorized to speak publicly," Richard Sandomir writes, adding, "The companies under investigation sell liability insurance for top-level team executives and directors, not players. One of the executives said, on the condition of anonymity, 'A couple of teams are very unhappy because the feeling is M.L.B. didn’t have to provide detailed, individual team financials for this type of insurance.' . . . At the unveiling of a statute of him outside Miller Park in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Commissioner Bud Selig said he was disappointed by the leaks and that they were being looked into."
