Could FBI Investigation of Fantasy Sports Extend to MLB Team Owners, Executives?
The FBI’s investigation into a popular daily fantasy sports operator could extend to team owners and executives of Major League Baseball.
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MLB Wants Names of New Baseball Players Accused of Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Baseball fans, brace for another wave of disclosures about players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. ESPN is reporting that Major League Baseball is urging the DEA to identify the players in an attempt to begin an investigation. Now the feds are trying to determine how they are going to honor the request…
Founder of Company That Provided Performance-Enhancing Drugs to Baseball Players Is Arrested
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The founder of a company accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to more than a dozen professional baseball players is expected to be indicted soon by a Florida grand jury after he was arrested Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Tony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis, surrendered to DEA agents at the bureau’s Fort…
Column: MLB May Never Eliminate Steroid Problem, But It Has Come a Long Way to Substantially Reducing It
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the New York Daily on June 22. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In August 1994, I was attending an FBI sports presentation conference. The bureau has a program where…
Justice Department to Probe Professional Baseball Players for Synthetic Testosterone
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice is joining Major League Baseball in searching for the source of synthetic testosterone found on San Francisco Giants All-Star outfielder Melky Cabrera, the USA Today reports. Helping steer the investigation is Jeff Novitzky, a criminal investigator for the Food and Drug Administration who led a separate probe of…