Chapter[ VI. Incidents Providing Evidence to Baseball Officials of Players’ Possession
or Use of Performance Enhancing Substances ]
Section[ K. Procedures Followed for Players Implicated in Recent Government Investigations ]
K. Procedures Followed for Players Implicated in Recent Government Investigations
As will be discussed in more detail below, during 2007 a number of current major
league players have been identified in news reports for allegedly purchasing performance
enhancing substances from compounding pharmacies that are the focus of state and federal
criminal investigations, or from anti-aging clinics that work with those pharmacies. Beginning
in September 2007, the Commissioner’s Office has required several of the players who have
been the subject of these reports to be interviewed about the allegations that have appeared in the
press.
288 See Letter Agreement between Francis X. Coonelly and Michael S. Weiner Re: Jason
Grimsley and the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Office of the Commissioner, dated Aug. 7,
2006.
289 Id.
108
Neither I nor members of my investigative staff attended those interviews.
I asked to interview each of the players who was interviewed as a result of these news reports,
but they either declined or did not respond to me.
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