Chapter[ VII. Major League Baseball and the BALCO Investigation ]
Section[ B. Information Learned During this Investigation Concerning BALCO and Major League Baseball ]
B. Information Learned During this Investigation Concerning BALCO and Major League Baseball
I requested interviews of all the major league players who had been publicly
implicated in the BALCO case: Marvin Benard; Barry Bonds; Bobby Estalella; Jason Giambi;
Jeremy Giambi; Armando Rios; Benito Santiago; Gary Sheffield; and Randy Velarde. Jason
Giambi agreed to be interviewed, and Randy Velarde provided information through his attorney.
All the other players implicated in the BALCO case refused my requests to be interviewed or did
not respond to them. Gary Sheffield initially declined my request for an interview. Sheffield
later said that he would agree to an interview, subject to the availability of his lawyer who was
undergoing medical treatments. Because of her medical condition, we were unable to secure a
date for an interview of Sheffield before the end of this investigation.
Those players who provided a reason for their refusal to cooperate most
frequently cited the possibility of a criminal investigation. Of all the players, only Barry Bonds
was at the time the subject of a criminal investigation, which has now led to a grand jury
indictment against him for perjury and obstruction of justice, so under these circumstances his
refusal to talk with me was understandable.
Interviews also were requested of numerous other persons believed to have
knowledge of BALCO, including Greg Anderson, Patrick Arnold, Kimberly Bell, Victor Conte,
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Hoskins, Remi Korchemny, Jim Valente, and Lance Williams. All
declined to be interviewed. Nevertheless, we were able to secure a number of relevant
documents and interviews. Set forth below is the information we obtained from those sources.
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