United States Attorney Wendy Olson has done what few federal prosecutors have accomplished in the government’s war on anabolic steroids. Olson has secured a big pay day for the government. Most of the government’s high-profile steroid cases have amounted to little more than witch-hunts targeting celebrity athletes who use steroids. Or they have targeted low- to mid-level steroid dealers and collected relatively small asset forfeitures and fines. In difficult financial times for the federal government, Olson negotiated plea agreements in which the government will collect over $8 million dollars courtesy of Bodybuilding.com and brothers Ryan and Jeremy DeLuca. [Read more…]
Jun
02
Lack of Change in Physical Appearance Proves Roger Clemens Didn’t Use Steroids?
The highly-touted trial lawyer Rusty Hardin made his opening statements last week in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of Roger Clemens. Clemens is accused of lying when he denied using anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (hGH) in testimony before Congress. One of Hardin’s arguments pointed to the lack of change in Clemens’ physical appearance during the period before, during and after working with trainer Brian McNamee. He claimed this proves that Clemens did not use steroids. [Read more…]
Jun
01
Lawyers for Army Soldier Blame Steroids for Afghanistan Massacre
The attorneys for Robert Bales, an infantryman with the United States Army, have indicated they plan to blame anabolic steroids for contributing to the “Kandahar Massacre“. Bales has been charged with sixteen counts of murder after he killed 16 civilians, most of them children, in the Afghanistan villages of Balandi and Alkozai on March 11, 2012. The Army added two new charges involving “wrongfully possessing and using” anabolic steroids and one count of “wrongfully consuming alcohol while deployed” in a press statement released by the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. [Read more…]
May
31
Expert Witness Doesn’t Think Steroids Contributed to Breivik’s Norway Massacre
Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik is an admitted mass murderer who is currently on trial at the Oslo District Courthouse in Norway. He killed 76 individuals when he bombed government buildings in Oslo and murdered teenagers attending the Workers’ Youth League summer camp on Utoya island on July 22, 2011. Breivik admitted using several cycles of anabolic steroids during training in preparation for his massacre. He wrote extensively about his use of steroids in a 1,500 page manifesto that was entitled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence”. Breivik’s use of steroids predictably led several journalists to blame the drugs for his deadly actions. An expert witness disagreed with these assertions during testimony this week. [Read more…]
May
30
Broward County Sheriff Deputy Avoids Jail After Busted with Winstrol
A Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) correctional deputy who was caught buying one hundred tablets of the anabolic steroid stanozolol has been sentenced to twelve months probation. David Agosto pleaded no contest to charges of possession of anabolic steroids. Stanozolol is more commonly known among bodybuilders and athletes by its trade name Winstrol. [Read more…]
May
29
Two British Men Given Suspended Prison Sentences for Stealing Steroid Alternatives
“Men stole anabolic steroids” reads the headline of a news story in the Plymouth Herald newspaper. The two men identified in the story didn’t really steal “anabolic steroids”. They stole a “steroid alternative” product marketed as a dietary supplement by Ultimate Sports Nutrition (USN). While the newspaper was certainly uninformed about the products involved in the crime, it is unclear if the prosecutors or judge knew that the stolen merchandise was a non-hormonal steroid replacement supplement. [Read more…]
May
28
Barry Bonds Has No Regrets Working with BALCO
Barry Bonds doesn’t necessarily any regrets working with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Bonds answered reporter questions about the BALCO steroid investigation, the government case against him and his plans for the future after watching a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 28, 2012. [Read more…]
May
27
Sydney Morning Herald Critical of “Steroid Vacations”
The Syndey Morning Herald has demonized anabolic steroids in an investigative report looking at the increasing popularity of “steroid vacations” among Australian bodybuilders. The purchase or importation of steroids in Australia can result in serious penalties including significant fines and even jail time. “Steroid vacations” refer to the increasingly popular practice among Australians of flying to countries where anabolic steroids and performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) can be purchased legally over the counter without a prescription. Law-abiding bodybuilders who respect the steroid laws of Australia have made Thailand a popular tourist destination for such purchases. [Read more…]
May
26
Criminals Using Steroids to “Look Big and Tough”
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reports that the boom in illegal anabolic steroids use in Australia has its roots in outlaw motorcycle gangs. The gangs have become increasingly involved in the high-profit and relatively low-risk crime of illegal distribution of anabolic steroids and performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) according to the newspaper. [Read more…]
May
25
Boxer Victor Ortiz Suspected Andre Berto of Using Steroids
Welterweight boxing champion Victor Ortiz recently claimed that he knew all along that Andre “The Beast” Berto was a user of anabolic steroids. Berto first accused Ortiz of using steroids after Ortiz unanimously defeated Berto in Ring Magazine’s 2011 “Fight of the Year” on April 16, 2011. Berto said that only a steroid user could have defeated him. Ortiz responded by telling Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times that only a steroid user would make such accusations. [Read more…]
