Paul Teutul, the founder of the Orange County Choppers and star of the reality television series, “American Chopper,” is the latest celebrity to have his private prescription records exposed by Senior Writer Brendan Lyons of the Albany Times-Union newspaper. The Times-Union has a history of doing this in the name of “investigative journalism”.
The Albany Times-Union has previously released the names of affluent and successful professional athletes and entertainers who may have used steroids according to private prescription records that the Albany County District Attorney’s Office seized from Signature Pharmacy in Florida. This information conveniently and repeatedly made it into the hands of Lyons of the Albany Times-Union.
Albany Times-Union Editor Rex Smith has vigorously defended Brendan Lyons’ use of confidential sources, like his best friend Chris D’Allessandro (Director of Operations for the Albany County DA), in investigation into the distribution of performance enhancing drugs at Signature. Smith stressed the need for “federal shield laws” to give reporters like Brendan Lyons “constitutional protection against divulging his sources.”
It is doubtful that federal shield laws were intended to protect journalists who want to make highly publicized disclosures of private prescription records of individuals in an obvious steroid witch-hunt.
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