This news appeared a couple hours ago in Washington Post/San Jose Mercury--News sites. We go to the lead periodical in the BALCO investigation, the San Francisco Chronicle:
A former New York Mets clubhouse employee pleaded guilty Friday to distributing performance enhancing drugs to major league players and agreed to cooperate in baseball's steroids investigation, federal prosecutors said.
Kirk Radomski, 37, admitted providing anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, Clenbuterol, amphetamines and other drugs to "dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players, and associates, on teams throughout Major League Baseball," San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott Schools said in a statement.
The Nation will track this down more, but we have read this fellow (?felon) distributed anabolic steroids (deca-durabolin is nandrolone), HGH, amphetamines, and clenbuterol to dozens of MLB players.
"The distribution of anabolic steroids to professional athletes cheats both the paying public and the clean athletes and is a serious crime," Schools said. "This investigation shows that distribution of performance-enhancing drugs continues to be an issue for sport in America. This office is dedicated to pursuing those who benefit from such crimes."
Radomski pleaded guilty earlier Friday in U.S. District Court to felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money, charges that carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
Radomski also agreed to cooperate in the federal probe, Schools said. That includes meeting with investigators from baseball's own steroid investigation, led by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
"This individual was a major dealer of anabolic steroids, including human growth hormones, whose clientèle was focused almost exclusively on Major League Baseball players," Prosecutor Matt Parrella said outside court.
Parrnell said Tomsk was in business for about 10 years, but he declined to name any of his clients.
One wonders if this isn't the huge break needed to make the BALCO case really stick. Radomski looks to have turned state's evidence. We hope he is in protective custody tonight.....
Radomski has been working with the feds for months, a source told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. The affidavit signed in his case was posted in December 2005. For as long as the last 17 months, Radomski may have been doing controlled distribution to players, or taping phone conversations, under the guise of the feds.
Within the affidavit, Radomski is quoted as saying that if the investigators thought the steroid elements of Jose Canseco's book were explosive, the information Radomski has provided for authorities will have a more significant impact. The source, Olney reports, compared Friday's development to "a Tiffany box" of performance-enhancing drug information being handed over to the Mitchell-led investigation.
Sports Illustrated, quoting from the warrant, reported "numerous significant deposits from current and former [Major League Baseball] players and some affiliated individuals" were made to Radomski. He received more than $23,000, pulled from more than 20 different payments between 2003-05 that are alleged to have been made in conjunction with steroids purchases, according to the documents viewed by SI.
We will break this development down further, later.
This guy, Radomski... he is going to end up dead, i mean you don't feed the monster up on Dianabol and Clenbuterol and then turn states evidence and expect to get away with it... very dangerous.
Posted by: Clen | 01/12/2008 at 09:21