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16 Nov, 2007 6:12 am
... from confidential testing conducted by Major League Baseball and the players association. [5] BALCO founder Victor Conte also served three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to steroids distribution. But Conte has long
insisted that Bonds didn't get steroids from his lab. Conte says, ... in November 2000 and submitted to the series of urine and drug tests
conducted by BALCO founder Victor Conte on every athlete who went through the lab; the test results
may have been seized ...
21 Nov, 2007 8:09 am
... blood samples. Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, declined to comment. But BALCO founder Victor Conte offered some insight Friday into how the slugger's legal team ... shatter Mark McGwire's single-season home run record. According to Conte, himself a convicted steroids dealer, Bonds would visit the lab on Saturdays and ... out much of the paperwork and elaborate protocol that typically
accompany drug tests. For instance, Conte said a licensed lab technician never watched Bonds urinate in the bottle. Nor ...
21 Jan, 2008 8:47 am
... an IRS agent when he said he had not used steroids linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and denied receiving performance enhancers from BALCO founder Victor Conte. The plea deal calls for the 37-year-old Stubblefield to spend zero to six months in ... raided BALCO
in November 2002, they seized "documents and other information" showing Stubblefield paid Conte for performance-enhancing drugs. Stubblefield's
lies "played a material role in the investigation," Nedrow said. " ...
20 Jan 10:00 am
... in the courts. Indeed, there are many recent examples where the famous have filed -- or threatened to file -- defamation cases to "prove" their innocence in the face of unfavorable
press. In 2004, Marion Jones sued BALCO founder, Victor Conte, after stories based on Conte's statements about her steroid use were published. Last year, Roger Clemens did the same in Texas, suing his former trainer, Brian McNamee, over
statements McNamee made about ...
6 Feb 9:56 am
... Bonds. But the judge said Valente's testimony was not enough to link the sample and Bonds. Victor Conte, BALCO's founder, has always maintained that Bonds' biological samples were tested "down and dirty" and unreliable. "These alleged Bonds test results
and records not ... chain of custody and contain inaccuracies, but they also involve people with no formal training," Conte said in an e-mail
Wednesday. "This causes uncertainty and creates doubt regarding the validity of this ...
7 Feb 11:19 am
... He admitted lying when he denied to [an IRS] agent that he had taken the steroid THG, known as "the clear," or the oxygen-boosting drug EPO, and when he said he had not received
those substances from Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame.
Conte and four others later pleaded guilty to illegally distributing drugs to athletes through BALCO. Former San Francisco Giants star Barry
Bonds is scheduled to go to ...
22 Dec, 2006 3:16 am
A Yahoo.Com story (here) states that a former defense attorney for Balco (Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative) founder Victor Conte leaked the grand jury testimony of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds and perhaps other major league players who testified into...
28 Dec, 2006 9:02 am
... can be used and what must be returned. The government's investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a now-defunct Burlingame supplements lab at the center of the steroid
scandal, already has resulted in guilty pleas from BALCO president Victor Conte, Anderson, BALCO vice
president James Valente, chemist Patrick Arnold and track coach Remi Korchemny. The case is United States v. Comprehensive Drug ...
8 Oct, 2007 1:38 pm
... federal agents got us nostalgic for 2004, when Duane Morris partner Joseph Burton was aggressively pushing Jones' claim of innocence. Very aggressively. "This is a character
assassination of the worst kind," Burton told the San Francisco Chronicle when BALCO chief Victor Conte fingered Jones. The sprinter's ex-husband, who corroborated the claims, was an embittered former spouse "seeking to exact his revenge by telling lies to
...
9 Oct, 2007 3:08 am
For years, runner Marion Jones denied ever using steroids. She even went so far as to sue Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, after he said that he saw her use steroids. On Friday, Jones pleaded guilty to two felony counts of lying to federal
investigators. She then faced the media: "I stand before you to tell you that I have betrayed your trust." On Monday, Jones returned her Olympic medals. She ...
16 Nov, 2007 8:06 am
... parade of defendants tied to the BALCO investigation, including Anderson, who served three months in prison and three months of home detention after pleading guilty to steroid
distribution and money laundering. BALCO founder Victor Conte also served three months in prison
after he pleaded guilty to steroids distribution. Bonds is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in the steroids probe, which also ensnared track star Marion Jones. She ...
16 Nov, 2007 4:49 pm
... ...] 1986 Bonds, listed at 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds, breaks into the majors as a 21-year-old rookie with the Pittsburgh Pirates. ....Anderson introduces Bonds to Victor Conte, a self-taught scientist who boasts he can propel athletes to peak performance through a personalized
regimen of nutritional supplements. ....2001 Bonds, now listed at 6-foot-2 and 228 pounds, hits a season-record 73 home runs and wins ...
7 Dec, 2007 9:30 am
... parade of defendants tied to the BALCO investigation, including Anderson, who served three months in prison and three months of home detention after pleading guilty to steroid
distribution and money laundering. BALCO founder Victor Conte also served three months in prison
after he pleaded guilty to steroids distribution. Bonds is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in the steroids probe, which also ensnared track star Marion Jones. She ...
11 Jan, 2008 8:43 am
... jury in 2003 in an investigation into BALCO, a lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports. In 2004, she said, "I have never, ever used performance-enhancing
drugs." She also sued BALCO founder Victor Conte after he repeatedly accused Jones of using
performance-enhancing drugs and said he watched her inject herself. But on the day she pleaded guilty, prosecutors said a 2003 search warrant at BALCO uncovered ledgers, ...
11 Jan, 2008 3:29 pm
... jury investigation of Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO)-a lab involved in the scandal linking professional athletes to steroid use-Jones denied ever using
performance-enhancing drugs. She filed a lawsuit against Victor Conte, BALCO's founder, who has said
that he saw Jones inject herself with a performance-enhancing drug. A 2003 search warrant uncovered doping calendars, ledgers, purchases, and blood-test results linking Jones ...
19 Jan, 2008 9:08 am
... -count in the federal prosecutions: Stubblefield's plea is the latest victory for the United States attorney's office since the investigation into Balco began. Six other people have
pleaded guilty, including the Balco founder, Victor Conte, and none of the cases has gone to trial.
Barry Bonds, baseball's career home run leader, and the former cyclist Tammi Thomas have pleaded not guilty. As I mentioned in this recent post ...
15 Feb, 2008 3:22 pm
... as the evidence at trial will show, each count charges that Bonds repeatedly lied in answering the same question or questions on the same subject matter." The matter will be the
subject of a court hearing Feb. 29. In a related proceeding, Anderson and BALCO founder Victor Conte
are expected in court Friday for a hearing on whether they can keep all the evidence prosecutors turned over to them from the government's investigation of ...
22 Feb, 2008 8:36 am
... Operative, or BALCO, headquarters of a drug ring that peddled steroids to numerous elite athletes. That drug test was mentioned in the indictment unsealed in November, with
prosecutors saying it was for a player they called "Barry B." BALCO founder Victor Conte has said the
test was done "quick and dirty," and there's no telling who handled Bonds' blood and urine samples during the three years between the testing and the federal raid. Legal ...
3 Mar, 2008 8:06 am
... , known as BALCO, according to federal prosecutors who questioned Bonds during his three-hour grand jury appearance. BALCO was the center of a performance-enhancing drug ring.
Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson, founder Victor Conte and three others pleaded guilty to
steroids distribution charges. In his appearance before the grand jury, Bonds said he didn't understand the results from the January 2001 test prosecutors showed him and then ...
12 Feb, 2004 6:58 am
The Justice Department has charged Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg F. Anderson, and 3 other men including Victor Conte Jr., the president and chief executive officer of the Bay Area Lab Cooperative, or BALCO, and its vice
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