Nationals General Manager Jim Bowden Resigns. "I have done nothing wrong"

Jim Bowden, who had been the only general manager for the Washington Nationals since the club relocated from Montreal as the Expos, has resigned today, saying that he had become a distraction. An immediate replacement for Bowden was not announced at the time. Bowden has become part of a federal investigation into the skimming of bonuses given to Latin American players, and comes on the heels two days ago of Bowden's announcement that special assistant Jose Rijo had been fired. Rijo was fired after a scandal involving a top prospect Alvarez David Lugo, who previously called himself Esmailyn Gonzalez. The shortstop, who received a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Nationals in 2006, allegedly falsified his name and age. At the time, the club also fired Jose Baez, the Nationals' director of operations in the Dominican Republic, and cut ties with Rijo's baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. Bowden was also arrested in April of 2006 for DUI and running a stop sig...