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UPDATED with sentencing: Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels communication director who earlier this year was convicted of distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday.
The minimum sentence was for 20 years, but Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means added two years because of a lack of remorse from Kay, who was found to have given Skaggs fentanyl the night of his death in a Texas hotel. The pitcher was 27 years old.
A DEA probe found that Kay regularly dealt the fentanyl — blue M/30 pills dubbed “blue boys” – to Skaggs and other team members. Former players including Matt Harvey, C.J. Cron, Mike Morin and Cameron Bedrosian testified at trial that Kay handed out blue 30-milligram oxycodone pills to them as well.
Kay’s sentencing came after prosecutors detailed his lack of remorse, including jailhouse calls and emails that, per the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, saw Kay insult Skaggs and his family.
“I hope people realize what a piece of sh*t he is,” he told his mother on one call. “Well, he’s dead, so f*ck ‘em.”
He also called the Skaggs family “dumb” and “white trash,” adding, “All they see are dollar signs.” Then, “They may get more money with him dead than he was playing because he sucked.”
He also called the jurors who convicted him in February “fat, sloppy, toothless and unemployed.”
PREVIOUSLY, February 17: A Fort Worth, Texas jury has found former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay guilty of distributing fentanyl and causing the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019.
The jury turned in its verdict within three hours of beginning deliberations this morning. Kay was immediately taken into
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