Feds Claim Conte Admits Supplying Bonds With Creamy, Clear Substances
from ESPN.com's Tom Farrey :
BALCO founder Victor Conte told federal investigators on the day his lab was raided in September 2003 that Barry Bonds was a regular visitor and that he gave the Giants slugger steroids, according to a memorandum summarizing the interview conducted by the Internal Revenue Service agent who headed the investigation.
The memo was submitted by the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco late Friday along with other documents. The government was attempting to defend charges by attorneys for four defendants charged in the case alleging that their clients were subjected to illegal searches and coerced by federal investigators.
Special agent Jeff Novitzky's memo states that Conte told him Bonds was one of the players trainer Greg Anderson brought to Conte to obtain two forms of steroids -- the previously undetectable THG and a testosterone-based ointment.
In a separate interview, BALCO vice president James Valente also told investigators that Bonds used the two substances, but that Bonds did not like how the THG made him feel.
Bonds, who has not been indicted, has said through his attorney that he has not used steroids.
The typewritten memos summarizing the interviews cited other athletes who received steroids, including many already mentioned, such as baseball's Gary Sheffield, Benito Santiago and Jason Giambi, NFL players Bill Romanowski, Dana Stubblefield, Barrett Robbins and Johnnie Morton, and track stars Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery.
The following is from Saturday's SF Chronicle's Lance Williams and Mark Fairnaru-Wada :
Barry Bonds' weight trainer told federal agents "he didn't think he should be talking anymore because he didn't want to go to jail" after they confronted him with evidence that he had supplied the San Francisco Giants star with steroids, court records show.
According to an investigator's report filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, weight trainer Greg Anderson broke off an interview with federal agents on Sept. 3, 2003, when they showed him a file that appeared to detail steroid use by Bonds, Anderson's client and lifelong friend.
The agents said they had seized calendars and other documents detailing the use of steroids by professional baseball players when they raided Anderson's Burlingame home to search for evidence in the BALCO steroid case.
"Included among these files with apparent steroid distribution details was a folder for Barry Bonds," wrote Internal Revenue Service investigator Jeff Novitzky.
"When confronted with this, Anderson stated that he didn't think he should be talking anymore, because he didn't want to go to jail."
lso made public Friday was a statement allegedly made by BALCO Vice President Valente during the raids, identifying an Illinois chemist named Patrick Arnold as creator of "the clear," the undetectable steroid that BALCO allegedly supplied to elite athletes. Arnold won fame in 1998 as the marketer of "andro," a legal steroid-like substance that St. Louis Cardinals star Mark McGwire was using when he broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in one season. The substance was recently outlawed by federal legislation.
In his statement, Valente identified Bonds as a steroid user.
"Bonds has received 'the clear' and 'the cream' from BALCO on a couple of occasions," the agent quoted Valente as saying. "According to Valente, Bonds does not like how 'the clear' makes him feel."
The executive said that Sheffield, Giambi and Santiago also were using the drug.
Valente said that BALCO sometimes sent athletes' urine to labs for steroid screening. Once BALCO ran tests for two Oakland Athletics -- Jason Giambi and his brother Jeremy. Both players tested positive for steroids, Valente told the agents.
Valente also said Anderson once sent Bonds' blood to a lab for testing. But the trainer put his own name on the sample because Bonds didn't want his name associated with the test. Valente didn't say how that test came out.
Valente's lawyer, Troy Ellerman, disputed the account of his client's statement and called the federal prosecutors "unadulterated punks" for making the document public. It will be "Exhibit A to our argument to dismiss the case," he said.
Obviously there are some big, big baseball fans involved in this Federal investigation, seeing as they waited a whole 48 hours after the World Series before crushing the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of young fans. Gary Sheffield? Jason Giambi? Bobby Estallela? Say it ain't so!
(unadultered Bay Area punks The Lewd predated the Balco scandal by many years)
BALCO founder Victor Conte told federal investigators on the day his lab was raided in September 2003 that Barry Bonds was a regular visitor and that he gave the Giants slugger steroids, according to a memorandum summarizing the interview conducted by the Internal Revenue Service agent who headed the investigation.
The memo was submitted by the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco late Friday along with other documents. The government was attempting to defend charges by attorneys for four defendants charged in the case alleging that their clients were subjected to illegal searches and coerced by federal investigators.
Special agent Jeff Novitzky's memo states that Conte told him Bonds was one of the players trainer Greg Anderson brought to Conte to obtain two forms of steroids -- the previously undetectable THG and a testosterone-based ointment.
In a separate interview, BALCO vice president James Valente also told investigators that Bonds used the two substances, but that Bonds did not like how the THG made him feel.
Bonds, who has not been indicted, has said through his attorney that he has not used steroids.
The typewritten memos summarizing the interviews cited other athletes who received steroids, including many already mentioned, such as baseball's Gary Sheffield, Benito Santiago and Jason Giambi, NFL players Bill Romanowski, Dana Stubblefield, Barrett Robbins and Johnnie Morton, and track stars Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery.
The following is from Saturday's SF Chronicle's Lance Williams and Mark Fairnaru-Wada :
Barry Bonds' weight trainer told federal agents "he didn't think he should be talking anymore because he didn't want to go to jail" after they confronted him with evidence that he had supplied the San Francisco Giants star with steroids, court records show.
According to an investigator's report filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, weight trainer Greg Anderson broke off an interview with federal agents on Sept. 3, 2003, when they showed him a file that appeared to detail steroid use by Bonds, Anderson's client and lifelong friend.
The agents said they had seized calendars and other documents detailing the use of steroids by professional baseball players when they raided Anderson's Burlingame home to search for evidence in the BALCO steroid case.
"Included among these files with apparent steroid distribution details was a folder for Barry Bonds," wrote Internal Revenue Service investigator Jeff Novitzky.
"When confronted with this, Anderson stated that he didn't think he should be talking anymore, because he didn't want to go to jail."
lso made public Friday was a statement allegedly made by BALCO Vice President Valente during the raids, identifying an Illinois chemist named Patrick Arnold as creator of "the clear," the undetectable steroid that BALCO allegedly supplied to elite athletes. Arnold won fame in 1998 as the marketer of "andro," a legal steroid-like substance that St. Louis Cardinals star Mark McGwire was using when he broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in one season. The substance was recently outlawed by federal legislation.
In his statement, Valente identified Bonds as a steroid user.
"Bonds has received 'the clear' and 'the cream' from BALCO on a couple of occasions," the agent quoted Valente as saying. "According to Valente, Bonds does not like how 'the clear' makes him feel."
The executive said that Sheffield, Giambi and Santiago also were using the drug.
Valente said that BALCO sometimes sent athletes' urine to labs for steroid screening. Once BALCO ran tests for two Oakland Athletics -- Jason Giambi and his brother Jeremy. Both players tested positive for steroids, Valente told the agents.
Valente also said Anderson once sent Bonds' blood to a lab for testing. But the trainer put his own name on the sample because Bonds didn't want his name associated with the test. Valente didn't say how that test came out.
Valente's lawyer, Troy Ellerman, disputed the account of his client's statement and called the federal prosecutors "unadulterated punks" for making the document public. It will be "Exhibit A to our argument to dismiss the case," he said.
Obviously there are some big, big baseball fans involved in this Federal investigation, seeing as they waited a whole 48 hours after the World Series before crushing the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of young fans. Gary Sheffield? Jason Giambi? Bobby Estallela? Say it ain't so!
(unadultered Bay Area punks The Lewd predated the Balco scandal by many years)
Posted: Sat - October 30, 2004 at 01:19 AM
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