Yasiel Puig has changed his plea to not guilty in a federal investigation tied to his illegal gambling practice, after the ex-MLB star had initially agreed to plead guilty to a singular count of providing false statements when prosecutors interviewed him in January. 'I want to clear my name. I never should have agreed to plead guilty to a I did not commit,' the 31-year-old Cuban-born American right fielder said in a released on Wednesday. The former All-Star, who is currently playing in South Korea, for lying to government officials. In August, he filed a plea agreement stating that he began betting on sporting events in 2019 through a third party – identified in court documents as 'Agent 1' – who was involved in an illegal gambling operation run by 46-year-old Wayne Joseph Nix.
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