His work with the Mitchell probe earned Kirk Radomski a pass out of jail when the former Met clubhouse boy faced a federal judge yesterday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports on Metboy's judicial face off:
A former New York Mets batboy who says he provided performance-enhancing drugs to a long list of major-league baseball players was put on five years' probation Friday and fined $18,575 for dealing steroids and laundering money.
At a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston agreed with the recommendations of prosecutors, who said Kirk Radomski, 38, deserved to avoid a prison term because of his "significant cooperation" with a federal probe into steroid use in baseball.
Radomski, who also has worked as a Mets clubhouse attendant and personal trainer, could have been sent to prison for up to six months for his crimes under sentencing guidelines.
Radomski worked with George Mitchell, exposing some of the extent of the PED abuse in major league baseball. That bought him some legal relief it seems:
When Radomski pleaded guilty last year, prosecutors ordered him to give details of his steroid dealing to former Sen. George Mitchell, whose investigative report on what has been called the sport's steroid era was released in December.
Radomski told Mitchell that he had provided drugs to dozens of players in the past decade.
Among them, he said, were 12 members of the New York Yankees, including pitching stars Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Kevin Brown, infielder Chuck Knoblauch and outfielder David Justice...
"Had this defendant not cooperated, the government would be recommending that he go to jail," Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Parrella told Illston.
As we recall Radomski -- Metboy -- worked in the Mets' clubhouse before embarking on a career as a steroid and PED dealer; Metboy used his connections as a clubhouse boy to spread steroid venom around the league. Then the major steroids trafficker Radomski exposed dozens of MLB players when the heat came down. Effectively, no Radomski, no Mitchell Report.
Radomski worked for the Mets from 1985 until 1995, then became a personal trainer. With longtime Mets clubhouse attendant Vinny Greco, he operated a Long Island car wash called Pro Touch Detail.
In February 2005, an informant told the FBI that Radomski was selling steroids to baseball players, court records show. The case was referred to the investigators who had probed steroid dealing at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame, and undercover agents made several steroid buys from Radomski.
In an affidavit dated Dec. 13, 2005, in support of a search of Radomski's Long Island home, Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator Jeff Novitzky described the trainer as "a major drug source in professional baseball who took over after the BALCO laboratories were taken down."
Agents found "thousands of doses of numerous types of anabolic steroids" at Radomski's home, the government said. The agents also seized vials of human growth hormone, insulin, an asthma drug called clenbuterol that has muscle-building properties, and a masking agent called Clomid, court records show.
Federal agents also obtained Radomski's client list, along with bank records showing as many as 23 "MLB-associated individuals" who wrote checks to Radomski's account, according to court records. Facing a maximum 25-year prison sentence, Radomski pleaded guilty in April to steroid dealing and money laundering.
Don't worry, though, Radomski is very very sorry he pushed steroids to pro athletes:
Radomski apologized in court for his crimes. In a letter to the judge, his lawyer, John Reilly, asked for mercy.
"Mr. Radomski is a devoted family man and is torn with guilt and remorse," he wrote.
the most interesting comment i heard in conjucntion with radomski's sentencing came from one of the fed lawyers who said that radomski was giving assistance to the investigators as recently as this past thursday! could it be that the feds have a lot more on clemens and that they're letting clemens dig himself into a deeper hole?
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When Radomski pleaded guilty last year, prosecutors ordered him to give details of his steroid dealing to former Sen. George Mitchell, whose investigative report on what has been called the sport's steroid era was released in December.
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The case was referred to the investigators who had probed steroid dealing at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame, and undercover agents made several steroid buys from Radomski.
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