BALCO leak resigns rodeo post.

The Colorado lawyer , who gave himself up as the BALCO leak, has resigned his
directorship of the major rodeo association.  Report here in Fox News.

The Colorado man who pleaded guilty to leaking secret grand jury transcripts in a federal steroids probe is resigning as commissioner of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.

The PRCA says Troy Ellerman resigned as commissioner Monday, with the resignation to take effect immediately.

In court papers filed Thursday, Ellerman acknowledged that he had allowed two newspaper reporters to look at transcripts of grand jury testimony from baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, and sprinter Tim Montgomery

One report The Nation read stated that Ellerman made a deal with one prosecutor;
however the Judge, whom presides over the case, is not taking that deal as binding. 
Ellerman could be looking at some hard time, as judges don't like monkey business.

Of course there is intrigue involved in this episode:

Ellerman represented two defendants in the BALCO steroid lab investigation and was privy to sensitive grand jury testimony that he leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle. He admitted he let reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada view transcripts of the grand jury testimony of baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and sprinter Tim
Montgomery. Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams used those notes to write several lnewspaper stories and a book that reported Giambi and Montgomery admitted to grand jurors that they took steroids, while Bonds and Sheffield testified they didn't knowingly take the drugs.

Shortly after the first leak in June 2004, Judge Susan Illston ordered an investigation. Ellerman and all lawyers in the case filed statements under penalty of perjury, swearing that they weren't the source. Ellerman even made a motion in October 2004 to dismiss the case against Valente because of "repeated government leaks of confidential information to the media."

Prosecutors said Ellerman leaked the transcripts in a misguided attempt to derail his client's prosecution "Such gamesmanship undermines the integrity of the legal system and demands accountability," said Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty...

It was Colorado Springs resident Larry McCormack who told prosecutors about Ellerman's role in the BALCO leak. McCormack worked as a private investigator for Ellerman during the BALCO trial.

McCormack says he first found out about the connection when Ellerman introduced Fainaru-Wada to him at a California park. Ellerman assured him that the reporters would go to jail before revealing their source.

In 2005, McCormack moved to Colorado Springs to work for Ellerman as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Executive Director. He was fired in August of last year after the board decided it wanted to go in a different direction. 

McCormack ..made the decision to tell prosecutors what he knew last year after reading the book "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports" written by the Chronicle reporters.   The book revealed prosecutors were serious about finding the leak. "My concerns were if I could be in any criminal danger," says McCormack.

In October of last year, McCormack wore an FBI wire, two times, in which Ellerman made incriminating statements. McCormack declined to discuss the details of that conversation until the Judge sentences Ellerman. McCormack says that in one of those conversations, Ellerman expressed regret over leaking the information, saying he wished he could go back and do it over again, because he wouldn't have done this.

When is 'Game of Shadows, the Sequel' coming out?

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