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Informant led feds to Bigbie, Radomski
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[SIZE=-1]A FBI informant wore a wire while speaking with a Baltimore Orioles outfielder, helping fuel the federal government's steroid investigation that eventually led to the Mitchell report, according to federal court documents posted on The Smoking Gun.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The informant, Andrew Michael Bogdan, was a landlord who went to work for the FBI after being caught up in a Baltimore-based real estate scam, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday on its Web site. According to the report, Bogdan's entry into Major League Baseball came via Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie, whom he met at an area restaurant co-owned by Bogdan's sister.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In 2005, the Web site reports, Bogdan told his FBI handlers that Bigbie admitted receiving performance-enhancing drugs from a source in New York. The FBI relayed the information to IRS agent Jeff Novitzky, who had led the BALCO investigation two years earlier in Northern California, The Smoking Gun reported, without citing specifics. Novitzky traveled to Baltimore and sat next to Bogdan when he called the outfielder to place his own steroid order. A month later, the Orioles player gave Bogdan the name of his source, Kirk Radomski. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The disclosure indicates how a new front of the investigation was being opened just as an old one was being closed. On July 15, 2005, the founder of BALCO, Victor Conte, pleaded guilty to steroid distribution and money laundering charges in connection with his sale of designer steroids. But just a week later, Bogdan was in Colorodo, visiting Bigbie, who had been traded to the Rockies. There, according to The Smoking Gun, Bigbie talked about Radomski's sales of human growth hormone and reportedly showed Bogdan his own vials containing the drug. Bogdan took a vial from the trash can and gave it to Novitzky.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That evidence subsequently convinced Radomski to cooperate with federal investigators. He taped calls and sent out monitored shipments of steroids, and eventually led Novitzky to Brian McNamee, the personal trainer who accused Roger Clemens of using HGH. Clemens denied the claims under oath, and is the subject of a grand jury inquiry.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't want to talk about him," Radomski said, when contacted by ESPN.com on Wednesday about Bogdan. "He is insignificant. I'll never speak his name."[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]ESPN [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A FBI informant wore a wire while speaking with a Baltimore Orioles outfielder, helping fuel the federal government's steroid investigation that eventually led to the Mitchell report, according to federal court documents posted on The Smoking Gun.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The informant, Andrew Michael Bogdan, was a landlord who went to work for the FBI after being caught up in a Baltimore-based real estate scam, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday on its Web site. According to the report, Bogdan's entry into Major League Baseball came via Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie, whom he met at an area restaurant co-owned by Bogdan's sister.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In 2005, the Web site reports, Bogdan told his FBI handlers that Bigbie admitted receiving performance-enhancing drugs from a source in New York. The FBI relayed the information to IRS agent Jeff Novitzky, who had led the BALCO investigation two years earlier in Northern California, The Smoking Gun reported, without citing specifics. Novitzky traveled to Baltimore and sat next to Bogdan when he called the outfielder to place his own steroid order. A month later, the Orioles player gave Bogdan the name of his source, Kirk Radomski. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The disclosure indicates how a new front of the investigation was being opened just as an old one was being closed. On July 15, 2005, the founder of BALCO, Victor Conte, pleaded guilty to steroid distribution and money laundering charges in connection with his sale of designer steroids. But just a week later, Bogdan was in Colorodo, visiting Bigbie, who had been traded to the Rockies. There, according to The Smoking Gun, Bigbie talked about Radomski's sales of human growth hormone and reportedly showed Bogdan his own vials containing the drug. Bogdan took a vial from the trash can and gave it to Novitzky.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That evidence subsequently convinced Radomski to cooperate with federal investigators. He taped calls and sent out monitored shipments of steroids, and eventually led Novitzky to Brian McNamee, the personal trainer who accused Roger Clemens of using HGH. Clemens denied the claims under oath, and is the subject of a grand jury inquiry.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't want to talk about him," Radomski said, when contacted by ESPN.com on Wednesday about Bogdan. "He is insignificant. I'll never speak his name."[/SIZE]
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