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Chicago White Sox star Jose Abreu admitted Wednesday to eating a page from a fake passport while traveling to the United States from Haiti to sign his first MLB contract.
The Associated Press (via CBS Chicago) passed along comments Abreu made to a federal jury in Miami while testifying in a case focused on the illegal smuggling of baseball players from Cuba. He explained how he drank a beer while eating the falsified document.
"Little by little I swallowed that first page of the passport. I could not arrive in the United States with a false passport," Abreu said.