A district court in Fort Worth, TX has convicted former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay of “distributing fentanyl” and supplying Tyler Skaggs, the team’s pitcher, drugs that caused his death in 2019.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Kay’s conviction concluded the trial that “yanked Major League Baseball to the center of the national opioid crisis.” His sentencing, scheduled in June, could give him 20 years to life imprisonment and a fine of up to $1 million.
During the trial’s closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsey Beran said that “Kay, and only Kay, could’ve given Skaggs the drugs that killed him.”
Meanwhile, Kay’s attorney Michael Molfetta mainly repeated the defense’s argument that Skaggs’ “drug dealer and close friend” could have given him the pills since Skaggs had asked the latter for supplies a week or two before his death. Molfetta also argued that the government was trying “to make a statement” and “push a narrative.”
Ultimately, the jury found Kay guilty of committing the crimes and agreed with the government that “but for the fentanyl, Skaggs wouldn’t have died,” Los Angeles Times reported.
According to an autopsy report, Skaggs “choked on his vomit, had fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system.” He was found dead in his room at the Hilton Southlake/Dallas Town Square after the Angels had flown to Texas to begin a series against the Texas Rangers.
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