Chapter[ VIII. Information Obtained Regarding Other Players’ Possession or Use of
Steroids and Human Growth Hormone ]
Section[ A. Background - 1. Kirk Radomski’s Cooperation ]
1. Kirk Radomski’s Cooperation
On April 26, 2007, Radomski signed a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s
Office, in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of distribution of anabolic steroids and
one count of money laundering.362 In that agreement, Radomski admitted that from 1995 until
360 Redacted Affidavit in Support of Application for a Search Warrant, United States v.
Unidentified Premises, No. 05-1539 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 13, 2005); U.S. Federal News, Information
Issued by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California: Steroid Dealer to Major
League Baseball Players Pleads Guilty (Apr. 27, 2007).
361 See Juliet Macur, Guilty Plea Widens Baseball’s Steroids Scandal, N.Y. Times,
Apr. 28, 2007, at A1; see also T.J. Quinn, Foul Air in Baseball; Confession of Ex-Mets Attendant
and Steroid Dealer Threatens Tremor, N.Y. Daily News, Apr. 29, 2007, at 58.
362 Plea Agreement, United States v. Kirk J. Radomski, CR No. 07-0222 (N.D. Cal.), at 1.
A copy of the plea agreement is included in the Appendix.
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December 2005 he distributed anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and clenbuterol, as
well as amphetamines, to “dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players . . . and
associates,” and that his network of clients ultimately could be traced to contacts he made during
his “past employment in Major League Baseball.”363 Radomski’s guilty plea was entered the
next day.
The plea agreement required Radomski to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney’s
Office, which directed Radomski to provide complete and truthful information to me and to my
investigative staff as part of his cooperation.364 I agreed that I would not make any public
statements about the information provided by Radomski, including the statements in this report,
without the approval of that Office. Given the ongoing nature of Radomski’s cooperation, the
U.S. Attorney’s Office required this agreement to assure itself that nothing I published would
compromise any of its ongoing investigative efforts and that, in that Office’s view, I accurately
reported the evidence supplied by Radomski. I agreed to this condition and have complied with
it. I am grateful to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for its cooperation.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has agreed to recommend that Radomski receive a
more lenient sentence if it concludes that he cooperated completely and truthfully, including with
regard to the information he provided to me. Radomski also has been advised that if the
U.S. Attorney’s Office concludes he has not been truthful or candid with that Office or with me,
he not only could lose the benefit of a recommendation of a lesser sentence but could be subject
to additional prosecution.
363 Radomski Plea Agreement at 3, lines 6-7, 11.
364 Radomski Plea Agreement at 5, lines 11-24; Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Justice,
Steroid Dealer to Major League Baseball Players Pleads Guilty (Apr. 27, 2007).
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In addition to his statements, Radomski provided us with copies of bank,
telephone, and other records that corroborated his statements. Copies of the checks and money
orders relating to reported purchases of performance enhancing substances by the players who
are named in this section are attached to this report in an appendix. We have redacted the copies
of checks, money orders, and other documents that are reproduced in this report to remove
spouses’ names, account numbers, addresses, and other non-relevant information.
Radomski told us that the checks and money orders he provided did not reflect the
full breadth of his distribution network, for several reasons. Although Radomski approached the
banks he had used while distributing illegal substances in an effort to retrieve all records they
had of checks deposited into his accounts, the banks could only obtain copies of some of his
deposited checks and could not provide any checks which pre-dated 2000. Radomski, however,
began selling steroids and other substances in the mid-1990s. Additionally, Radomski stated
that, on many occasions, he cashed checks or money orders instead of depositing them, and the
banks did not retain copies of cashed checks or money orders that were not deposited into
Radomski’s accounts. Finally, Radomski sometimes was paid in cash. As a result, in most cases
the number of sales Radomski stated he made to a particular player does not correspond to the
number of checks from the player that Radomski was able to retrieve from his banks.
Where checks or money orders were not available, other documents often
corroborated Radomski’s testimony. For example, he provided detailed telephone records
covering the period from June 2004 to June 2006. They show many calls made to telephone
numbers that correspond to the numbers of Major League Baseball players.365 Radomski’s
address book also was provided to us in the form in which it existed when federal agents seized it
365 Copies of earlier records were not available, according to Radomski’s telephone
company.
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during the execution of a search warrant at his home in December 2005.366 It includes many
names and addresses of current and former Major League Baseball players. He also maintained
copies of some delivery receipts, although he said that in the ordinary course of housekeeping he
had discarded most of those documents and the few that were found by federal agents when
executing their search warrants were simply “ones [he] missed.”
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