Former Florida clinic owner gets four years prison in baseball doping case

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Former Florida clinic owner gets four years prison in baseball doping case

BY ZACHARY FAGENSON
MIAMI Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:49pm EST

(Reuters) - The owner of a Florida clinic that supplied steroids to professional baseball players, putting it at the center of a scandal that led to Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez's suspension, was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday.

Anthony Bosch, 51, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to distribute testosterone and had sought leniency from a federal judge due to his cooperation with federal and Major League Baseball investigators.

But U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles refused to give Bosch less than the four years agreed to by prosecutors, describing the owner of the now-defunct anti-aging Biogenesis clinic as the mastermind of an operation that also supplied performance-enhancing drugs to high school athletes.

"One can only imagine the horror of a parent who has unwittingly taken a child to Mr. Bosch and watched as he used a syringe to inject a controlled substance into their children," the judge said during a hearing in the Southern District of Florida in Miami.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/17/us-usa-florida-doping-idUSKBN0LL1AM20150217

[El Supremo]

1. And A-Roid gets $64 million.

And writes this phony letter.



I hope Bosch gets a good portion.

[hughee99]

2. If Bosch ran an anti-aging clinic, why would

Someone take their CHILD there? That comment just seems weird to me.

[joeybee12]

3. Well, thank God the players implicated didn't have to go to prison!!!

That's what's important!!!!