Chapter[ VIII. Information Obtained Regarding Other Players’ Possession or Use of
Steroids and Human Growth Hormone ]
Section[ Mo Vaughn ]
Mo Vaughn
Mo Vaughn played as an infielder and designated hitter with three teams in
Major League Baseball between 1991 and 2003, the Boston Red Sox (8 seasons), Anaheim
Angels (2 seasons), and New York Mets (2 seasons). While with the Red Sox in 1995, he was
voted the American League Most Valuable Player. He played in three All-Star games.
Radomski said that Glenallen Hill referred Vaughn to him. A former major
league player has confirmed that Hill and Vaughn had a conversation in early 2001 in which
Radomski’s name was mentioned. Radomski recalled that Vaughn had an ankle injury and
called him for advice.401 Radomski told Vaughn that human growth hormone would help his
ankle heal faster.
Radomski said that thereafter he sold human growth hormone to Vaughn.
Radomski also provided Vaughn with a program for the use of the human growth hormone.
Radomski said that he delivered the substances to Vaughn personally. Radomski produced three
checks deposited into Radomski’s accounts and drawn on Vaughn’s checking account: two
checks for $3,200 each, and one check for $2,200. All of the checks are included in the
Appendix. One is shown below.
401 Vaughn did not play for the entire 2001 season because of that injury. See Murray
Chass, Baseball: Mets Land Vaughn with a Twist and a Tug, N.Y. Times, Dec. 28, 2001, at S1.
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Radomski said that the two checks in the amount of $3,200 were each for two kits
of human growth hormone. He stated that the check in the amount of $2,200 might have been
for one-and-a-half kits of human growth hormone. Radomski said that he did not sell Vaughn
steroids because Vaughn was “afraid of the big needles.”
Radomski could not explain why Vaughn was buying human growth hormone
twice within an eighteen-day span (two of the checks are dated June 1 and June 19, 2001,
respectively), but he thought that Vaughn either left his performance enhancing substances
behind when he traveled or allowed the earlier shipment to spoil. Radomski also said that on
many occasions he received payments well after supplying the drugs.
Vaughn’s name, with an address and telephone number, is listed in the address
book seized from Radomski’s residence by federal agents.
In order to provide Vaughn with information about these allegations and to give
him an opportunity to respond, I asked him to meet with me; he never agreed to an interview.
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