Kirk Radomski pled guilty to distributing anabolic steroids and laundering the money. The Smoking Gun has the plea agreement. Spoiler: no names in the agreement.
The short timeline: worked for the Mets 1985-1995, and then dealt drugs 1995-2005, when the police searched his house.
Interesting points:
He contacted some personally, but also did business through the telephone and mail. If this is the case, there will be phone records and other records to be traced back.
He’s agreeing to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including testimony, providing documents. This includes “f. I will not reveal my cooperation, or any information related to it, to anyone without prior consent of the government” and “g. I will participate in undercover activities…” both of which seem a hard to pull off now.
This is likely much bigger than the last dominoes: the Jason Grimsley roll-over, or the online pharmacy busts, which still haven’t affected anyone now playing.
We’ve only seen MLB punish one player (Grimsley) for a drug offense not related to testing positive. If Radomski’s cooperation provides a long list of players that he sent anabolic steroids to after baseball implemented its drug policy, it’s going to be an unwelcome series of decisions for the Commisioner’s office to make, and one, I’m sure, they’d rather not have to confront.
(hat tip to Thomas Nast for the Smoking Gun link)
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