Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 11, 2008
Radomski Interview

Mike Fish of ESPN.com interviews Kirk Radomski. Interestingly, he was turned in by a friend of ballplayers. The friend was in trouble with the law:

So who turned him in to the authorities?

A telling document is the affidavit in support of the search warrant executed the day before the December raid in 2005. In it, Novitzky writes that the FBI had provided a confidential informant -- described as an individual awaiting sentence on felony real estate fraud -- who learned through baseball acquaintances of an individual in New York who was supplying anabolic steroids to players.

The informant told Novitzky that one of the players supplied by Radomski had been publicly connected to the BALCO scandal. The identity of that player remains unknown publicly.

According to documents, the informant contacted a baseball source who eventually put him in contact with Radomski. The FBI tape-recorded the calls. Beginning in April 2005, the FBI informant placed at least five steroid orders on behalf of agents with Radomski, the last of which was shipped to a San Jose address provided by Novitzky.

"I know who it is. I know the real estate guy," Radomski says. "It took me a while, but I understood.

"They had a lot of information. I never talked to people about it, so it had to be ballplayers. And the so-called FBI informant, he didn't know as much as they thought he did. There had to be ballplayers that were talking."

The bigger the conspiracy, the easier it falls apart.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:35 PM | Cheating | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Funny, the number of media clowns calling these guys rats when the ballplayers screwed themselves by A) Using B) Talking.
Then there's a bizarre expectation that the hired help will hold the line and rot in jail.
Clemens is looking mighty screwed, DOJ investigation into perjury should be kicking off right about now.

Posted by: abe at February 12, 2008 07:18 AM

abe - can he share a cell with McNamee? they could do a great workout program.

Posted by: rmt at February 12, 2008 09:09 AM

No, Clemens will have his own cell. It will be much larger than any other, since it will need to contain his arrogance as well.

Posted by: Mark at February 12, 2008 10:29 AM

come on guys go easy on roger. he thought the bat was a ball...

Posted by: Tim at February 12, 2008 11:55 AM
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