Chapter[ IX. The Threat Posed By Internet Sales of Steroids and Human Growth
Hormone ]
Section[ Jose Guillen ]
Jose Guillen
In an article on November 6, 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that
Seattle Mariners outfielder Jose Guillen purchased human growth hormone, testosterone, and
480 Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, Glaus Received Steroids; Pipeline
Pharmacy Provided Drugs to All-Star 3B, SI.com, Sept. 7, 2007.
481 T.J. Quinn, MLB Seeks Albany List, N.Y. Daily News, Sept. 30, 2007, at 63.
482 Brendan J. Lyons, A Web of Easy Steroids; Florida Raid Highlights a Lucrative
Business, Albany Times Union, Feb. 28, 2007, at A1.
483 See Redacted Affidavit of Jeff Novitzky sworn to on May 31, 2006, at 12-13; see also
Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, Rx for Trouble: Inside the Steroid Sting, Sports
Illustrated, Mar. 12, 2007, at 62.
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other steroids through the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center in multiple transactions over a three-
year period between 2002 and 2004 and possibly also in 2005.484
According to the article, Guillen placed his first order with the center on May 1,
2002, when he was playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He paid $2,180 by wire transfer for
human growth hormone, testosterone cypionate, nandrolone, and syringes. On September 19,
2003, when he was playing for the Oakland Athletics, he used a credit card to purchase $2,083
worth of human growth hormone (Genotropin), testosterone propionate, stanozolol, and syringes,
which were shipped to him at the Oakland Coliseum. In July 2004, when Guillen was playing
for the Anaheim Angels, he “placed a $6,000 order for [human] growth hormone, testosterone
propionate and syringes,” in addition to clomiphene and Novarel. The article also reported that
records reflected two additional orders from Guillen for human growth hormone and syringes: in
September 2003, when he was playing for Oakland and in June 2005, when he was playing for
the Washington Nationals. The article said that it could not be verified from the records the
reporters reviewed whether these orders had been sent to Guillen.485
The Chronicle article suggested that at least some of Guillen’s purchases of
human growth hormone were based on prescriptions that had been written by the same
suspended dentist who reportedly wrote prescriptions for human growth hormone for Paul
Byrd.486
Neither I nor any member of my investigative staff had any prior knowledge of
any allegation about Guillen.
484 See Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, Baseball’s Drug Scandal Widens;
Former Athletic, Giant Among Steroid Clients of Florida Clinic Targeted by Prosecutors,
S.F. Chron., Nov. 6, 2007, at A1.
485 Id.
486 Id.
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The Commissioner’s Office met with Guillen to discuss the allegations. On
December 6, 2007, the Commissioner’s Office announced a 15-day suspension of Guillen for
violation of the joint drug program, to take effect at the start of the 2008 season. According to
news reports, Michael Weiner, the general counsel of the Players Association, said that Guillen
would appeal the suspension.487
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