The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government's work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds - the probe's highest- profile catch - is sentenced for obstruction of justice.
Baseball SAN FRANCISCO - The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
According to a Feb. 14 press release, Colorado defense attorney Troy Ellerman admitted that he allowed Fainaru-Wada to take detailed notes - not once, but twice - of secret transcripts of federal grand jury testimony during the investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, known as BALCO. Fainaru-Wada and Williams used the leaked grand jury testimony of athletes such as Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi for Chronicle articles and for their Major League Baseball steroids exposé book, "Game of Shadows.
Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams in May in an effort to identify who gave them transcripts of grand jury testimony involving an investigation of steroid manufacturer Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), which allegedly supplied steroids to athletes including baseball players Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi. While Branzburg is no model of clarity, a significant majority of federal courts that have considered whether the First Amendment provides protection to journalists from compelled disclosure of their confidential sources - including the Court of Appeals in this Circuit - have concluded that it does. The court would end up weighing the interest in protecting the integrity of criminal process (which is disrupted when grand jury testimony is not kept secret) versus the public int...
[Marion Jones] never identified the members of her "team," perhaps because so many of her friends have had their own drug-accusation problems: one coach, the father of her child, an ex-husband who tested positive for steroids four times. Anyway, her "team" discovered BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, when it searched for a company that could be trusted in the manufacture of "nutritional supplements" (her words).
The case began in 2004, when Fainaru-Wada and Williams wrote articles for the Chronicle that quoted federal grand jury testimony from several well-known athletes who admitted to using illegal steroids obtained from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, also known as BALCO. Attorneys for Fainaru-Wada and Williams say the information the reporters received was not protected by the grand jury rules of secrecy because prosecutors voluntarily gave material from grand jury proceedings to defense lawyers for trial preparation.
There was the formation of an anti-doping agency, the first of its kind in the U.S., where most Olympic athletes hadn't been drug- tested and those who had been caught were slapped on the wrist. Then there was the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) investigation, in which more than a dozen U.S. track and field athletes were sanctioned and the designer steroid THG was unmasked. Then there was the recently completed case involving Floyd Landis, an American cyclist busted for using
A noted scientist was indicted Thursday for allegedly supplying BALCO with the performance-enhancing drug known as "the clear.' A federal grand jury accused Patrick Arnold of conspiring with Bay Area Laboratory- Cooperative founder Victor Conte to illegally distribute the once-undetectable substance tetrahydragestrinone.
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Barry Bonds flashed a victory sign after a federal jury deadlocked on three counts in his perjury trial. But his conviction on one count of obstruction of justice nonetheless is a victory for prosecutors and the rule of law -- and his flawed character is now a matter of legal record. Prosecutors might retry Mr. Bonds, 46, on the unresolved counts. His lawyers, of course, want the conviction thrown out. He faces up to 10 years in prison. But guidelines call for 15 to 21 months, and others sentenced in Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) cases have gotten six to 12 months' home confinement.
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