Prepare for a tsunami: Victor Conte to pen new book on steroids

The New York Daily News says Victor Conte plans on pushing a new kiss and tell book on steroids:  "BALCO: The Straight dope on Steroids, Barry Bonds, Marion Jones and What We Can Do To Save Sports."  This should be one wild read.

Yes, He's back, and with a pen on steroids:

Monday marks the return of Victor Conte, the charismatic founder of the infamous BALCO laboratory, to the position where he has always seemed to feel perfectly comfortable: At the center of attention, pleading his case.

Off criminal probation as of midnight on Sunday, Conte is expected to celebrate his return to freedom with a tell-all book spilling the juice on BALCO athletes and the federal agents who have been prosecuting them now for five years.

Who will play Conte in the Movie adaptation (see photo at right)?

Conte, who has remained mostly silent as the government, the media and the athletes involved have examined, analyzed and dissected the most explosive drug case in sports history, says he will now tell his side of the story.

Slated for publication in September under the Skyhorse imprint, the book's working title is "BALCO: The Straight Dope on Barry Bonds, Marion Jones and What We Can Do To Save Sports." Conte, in conjunction with co-author Nathan Jendrick, promises to share "the dirt, the drugs, the doses, the names, dates and places, and a 'prescription' for a brighter future."

He promises the "complete truth in its honest, unadulterated and raw form" and says he is "ready to tell the world everything." While the BALCO athletes, particularly Barry Bonds and Marion Jones, have been in the unwelcome spotlight in recent years, Conte, who enjoys speaking his mind, has been frustrated by being forced to assume an uncharacteristic measure of discretion because of legal jeopardy. (It has also been an expensive battle for Conte. In the case of Jones, who is serving a prison sentence for lying to the government, Conte says he spent upwards of $100,000 to defend a baseless $25 million lawsuit Jones filed against him for saying she used performance-enhancing drugs).

Maybe I don't get it...Canseco Conte and the others conspire to cheat sports, then turn around and write books on how to save sports...OK.

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Might Conte be mad at Jeff Novitzy?

One of Conte's biggest targets is likely to be Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent who sniffed out the BALCO conspiracy in 2003 and has tenaciously chased down every twist in it ever since.

Conte claims Novitzky, who is on the witness stand Monday in the government's prosecution of cyclist Tammy Thomas (the first BALCO athlete to refuse a plea bargain and take her case to trial), fabricated a confession he says Conte gave on the day of the BALCO raid, and lied in court documents.

The 27 athletes Novitzky says Conte confessed to giving drugs to in the September, 2003 raid on BALCO?

"He made the list himself," Conte says.

Ouch, that isn't very legal.

Duvall.  Robert Duvall with glasses as Conte.

Comments

[Christina Van Horik]

It doesn't surprise me Mr. Conte says his confession and court documents were falsified. Also that, Mr. Novitzky lied on the stand and the athlete list was made up, again, by Mr. Novitzky.
These Federal agents have "cart blanche" to falsify evidence, falsify statements, they do no real investigations. They make up stories as they go along. American lives are ruined because it's easier to make up stories then do real investigations. Americans go to jail because of their laziness. And whose going to call them on it?
It's time we investigate the investigators, they are making a mockery of our judicial system.
These people in so-called power are eating us alive. We're letting them stomp and throw in the gutter our inalienable rights, to decide for ourselves what we put in our bodies,It's not the governments decision. The more control they have over us the harder the fight,but there will be a fight. The war on drugs is a war on Americans, but very profitable to those pulling the strings....and it all comes down to money and the power. They have gone too long going unnoticed using our money and our power, they do it right in front of our noses. I feel like those trusting little animals that follow each other right over the cliffs to their deaths.