Albany district attorney David Soares will forward names and addresses of suspected professional athletes to their respective leagues. The New York Daily News published the story today.
Albany District Attorney David Soares said yesterday he will take the names of any athlete who was buying drugs from two pharmacies involved in a nationwide steroid investigation and forward them to the leagues they play for, including the National Football League and Major League Baseball. Those players ultimately could be called as witnesses against the distributors and physicians who are the targets of Soares' ongoing investigation, known as "Operation Which Doctor."
How will Soares' office know whom is an athlete and whom isn't? Do they have database technology? Or someone from SI helping with the task? And if the athlete uses an alias, such as Evander Holyfield, or ''Evan Fields' used, what then?
"We're going to be sending (the leagues) information to vet those names, see if they are who they say they are," Soares told the Daily News yesterday. The leagues should be able to identify whether the mailing addresses and other personal information associated with clients of the two pharmacies are in fact those of athletes, athletes using aliases or other clients who used the names of athletes as aliases while ordering steroids and human growth hormone.
The NFL and MLB are interestingly quiet on the possibility of receiving names of players who ordered drugs, as this is potentially a huge embarrassment.
Spokesmen for MLB and the NFL said they were unaware Soares would be sending a letter or providing names, and declined to comment further.
Soares said he does not plan to make the names public, but acknowledged that once the names are in circulation, it is entirely possible that they could find the light of day.
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