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Two owners of MedXLife, a prescription drug website now linked to Signatue Pharmacy, have pleaded guilty to felony third-degree diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions. Greg Trotta, 38, and Brian Schafler, 34 admitted they helped get steroids for customers and have agreed to testify against parties involved. In court, Schafler said that he “put in the order” and that he spoke with customers and then had them speak with Dr. Gary Brandwein, another owner of MedXLife.com. Brandwein then signed and sent the prescriptions that were filled by Signature Pharmacy before being sent to the ‘patient.’ This was all done without…
On March 3, 2006, Major League Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig, announced that MLB would begin a full-scale investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs since MLB had banned such drugs as part of the collective bargaining agreement signed in 2002. At a press conference, Selig named former Senate Majority Leader, George Mitchell, to head the open-ended investigation. Mitchell is a director of the Boston Red Sox, as well as chairman of The Walt Disney Co., the parent of ESPN, but insisted his affiliations would have no effect on the investigation. While the investigation was to focus on 2002 or later,…
Sports Illustrated reporters, Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim have uncovered yet another former major league baseball player who reportedly acquired performance-enhancing drugs this time from the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center (PBRC). The PBRC did $17 million worth of business with Signature Pharmacy, one of the pharmacies raided in February at the center of the internet performance-enhancing drug distribution investigation. “According to documents we’ve reviewed, Darren Holmes — a former major league pitcher for 13 seasons with eight teams (including five years with the Rockies) — received somatropin (the generic name for synthetically produced HGH) and testosterone through Palm…
Two more former major league baseball players were reported to be on Applied Pharmacy Services customer list. The pharmacy in Mobile, Alabama is one of the pharmacies that was raided as part of an ongoing grand jury investigation into the sale of drugs including steroids and growth hormones over the internet. Sports Illustrated’s in-depth coverage led by reporters, Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim has now turned up former Braves closer, John Rocker and former Philies third baseman, David Bell. “No birth date was indicated on the prescriptions, but according to the Applied database, former Atlanta Braves reliever John…
Another major league baseball player has been linked to the internet steroid and human growth hormone distribution investigation. The investigation out of the Albany District Attorney’s Office has already implicated Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., retired players Jason Grimsley and Jose Canseco, as well as others from outside of baseball. Sports Illustrated reporters Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim were the first to report specifically that Matthew Jr. had ordered human growth hormone and are now to report the same of Hairston Jr. From Llosa and Wertheim’s article on Hairston Jr. March 2, 2007: “According to a…
A new report at Sports Illustrated claims Gary Matthews Jr. was not only on a customer list from Applied Pharmacy Services in Mobile, Alabama, but he ordered a shipment of human growth hormone (hGH) in 2004. Reporters Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim have been tracking the investigation of an illegal steroid distribution network that has implicated pro athletes for Sports Illustrated The reporters said it’s already become clear that a number of high-profile athletes will be asked to explain why performance-enhancing drugs including human growth hormone and anabolic steroids were prescribed in their names and, in some cases,…
The controversial book, Game of Shadows, was released in paperback with a new epilogue written by the authors Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, outlining the year since the book was first published. It describes Barry Bonds’ 2006 season facing hecklers, boos, chants of ‘BALCO’, and the now-famous toy syringe thrown in his direction in Phoenix. It also details the government’s investigation into perjury and tax evasion charges against Bonds accelerated by the publication of Game of Shadows. IRS Agent Jeff Novitzky searched for more proof that Bonds had lied under oath in 2003 when he testified that he had never…
A large Albany-based grand jury investigation into the sale of steroids and human growth hormone (hGH) over the internet culminated today in the raid of a Florida pharmacy and the indictment of two owners of a pharmacy in Alabama. Investigators said over twenty-four people would be arrested in the coming days including six doctors and three pharmacists. Two separate Signature Pharmacy locations, both in Orlando, Florida, were raided. Jason Grimsley reportedly was a customer. Four people, the two owners of Signature, Pharmacists and husband and wife, Stan and Naomi Loomis, Stan’s brother Kenneth Michael Loomis (also a pharmacist) and marketing…
Troy Ellerman, former lawyer for BALCO president, Victor Conte, has admitted to being the source of the BALCO grand jury documents leaked to San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-wada. In court papers filed Wednesday, Ellerman agreed to plead guilty to four felony counts of obstruction of justice and disobeying court orders, to spend up to two years in prison and pay a fine of $250,000. As part of the plea, federal prosecutors will cease all attempts to put the reporters in jail for failing to reveal Ellerman as the leak. A judge still has to approve the…
The New York Daily News has reported that Barry Bonds failed an amphetamine test in 2006. Under the terms of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention Program, a first positive test for amphetamines does not require a suspension or the naming of the player to the public. It does however trigger a provision that calls for Bonds (or any player testing positive for amphetamines) to be tested six times in the following six months. Bonds did not appeal the decision. According to the Daily News, several sources indicated that when Bonds was informed of his positive test, he attributed it…