ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The state of New York has prepared a 190-page indictment alleging a group of New York Racing Association officials lied about the weights horses carried.
Sources did not reveal the names in the indictment being prepared in Albany, but told the New York Post it charges they "altered the outcome of races" by lying about the weight of jockeys and the load being carried by horses running at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga.
The indictment by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer claims officials failed to report the accurate weights of the jockeys before the races and lied about their weights afterward, allowing "people who knew of the fraud" to have a definite edge when it came to picking winners.
Last June, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi described the NYRA as the "poster child for mismanagement and corruption" when he released an audit citing a litany of abuses.
