Report: Barry Bonds Tested Positive for Steroids in 2001

[michael777]

Thursday, February 14, 2008

associated press SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids in November 2001 — a month after hitting his record 73rd home run of the season, Reuters reported.

"At trial, the government's evidence will show that Bonds received steroids from Anderson in the period before the November 2001 positive drug test, and that evidence raises the inference that Anderson gave Bonds the steroids that caused him to test positive in November 2001," U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello wrote in a legal filing, according to Reuters.

Bonds, a free agent, has pleaded not guilty to four charges of perjury and one count of obstruction.

[Pancho Sanza]

who did the test? why were the results suppressed?

[Mike Brennan]

Originally Posted by Pancho Sanza

who did the test? why were the results suppressed?

Rumor is BALCO's lab did the test and it was discovered during a warranted search by the Feds. Hence the perjury charge.

I read that at ESPN.com a while back.

[chris@thegreek]

Huge Shock, another joke of a player to mention Bonds in the same breat as Henry Aaron is a disgrace


Aaron was a ambassador for baseball


Bonds is a joke, guy had a great career, but was ego driven to take steriods so he could be the man


wait until Feds drill him in trial, he will wish alot differently

Barry and Roger can pay there admission price at baseball HOF, they are open daily, only way these 2 fools will ever get in

[Mike Brennan]

Bonds' positive steroid test discovered among BALCO evidence

By Mike Fish
ESPN.com

Updated: November 16, 2007, 1:36 AM ET

As suspicions of steroid usage gained in volume and as federal investigators doggedly stayed on the case, the defense from his camp never wavered. Barry Bonds never flunked a drug test, they argued.

That argument is no longer valid, or so says the government in a 10-page indictment lodged Thursday against the 43-year-old Bonds. In making a case that Bonds perjured himself when he told a grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs, federal attorneys allege in the indictment that they have evidence he has tested positive.

The telling point from the indictment reads: "During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances for Bonds and other professional athletes."

According to the indictment, the anabolic steroids were detected in Bonds' system during a November 2000 test. That was almost three years prior to the implementation of a testing program by Major League Baseball. Bonds hit 49 home runs, then a career high, in 2000. The next season, he hit a major league-record 73 home runs.

An attorney familiar with the investigation told ESPN that the government obtained the results of positive steroids tests for Bonds during a search of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), the Burlingame, Calif.-based supplements lab at the center of the steroid scandal. Agents also had access to a storage locker where BALCO clients' files were maintained.

BALCO founder Victor Conte told ESPN.com on Thursday night that the test result likely came from his lab, saying that it was common for the lab to refer samples from athletes for testing. At the time, those tests were performed by Quest Diagnostics outside San Diego.

Three months after the BALCO raid, on Dec. 4, 2003, Bonds testified under a grant of immunity before a federal grand jury in San Francisco. According to the indictment, Bonds was informed of the positive test.

"So, I got to ask, Mr. Bonds," a federal prosecutor said during the grand jury proceedings, according to the indictment, "there's this number associated on a document with your name, and corresponding to Barry B. on the other document, and it does have these two listed anabolic steroids as testing positive in connection with it. Do you follow my question?"

Bonds replied that he did.

"So, I guess I got to ask the question again, I mean, did you take steroids? And specifically this test [in November of 2000]. So, I'm going to ask you in the weeks and months leading up to November 2000, were you taking steroids?"

Bonds responded, "No."

Conte said Thursday evening that he is "very surprised" by the Bonds indictment. He played down any suggestion that the records uncovered at his lab seal the case against baseball's newly crowned home run king.

"There is a serious issue regarding a lack of chain of custody," Conte said. "No test result has anybody's name or initials. All steroid test results performed at BALCO were a number only. Now there were different ledgers with initials and different things that are certainly subject to challenge, but there is no type of steroid panel test result with the name Barry Bonds on it."

Mike Fish is an investigative reporter for ESPN.com. He can be reached at michaeljfish@gmail.com. ESPN investigative reporter T.J. Quinn also contributed to this report.

ESPN - Bonds' positive steroid test discovered among BALCO evidence - MLB

[Mike Brennan]

If such a positive test exists, and it can be authenticated to the satisfaction of the Court, Bonds is going to jail.

So far, there is no such evidence against Clemens.

[nostaw1952]

In the words of Emily Latella (Gilda Ratner) on Saturday Night Live long ago, "Never mind..."

U.S. filing typo spurs erroneous Bonds drug report

ESPN.com news services

Updated: February 14, 2008, 10:34 PM ET


SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors mistakenly filed court papers Thursday that incorrectly stated that Barry Bonds failed a steroids test in November of 2001 -- one month after breaking the single-season home run mark.

U.S. attorney spokesman Josh Eaton now says that the reference in Thursday's government court filing regarding Bonds testing positive was actually referring to a November 2000 test that was previously disclosed in the indictment of Bonds and had already been reported.

In December, Bonds pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

The mistake prompted a flurry of reports on television and Web sites -- including ESPN.com -- around the country.

The filing amounted to federal prosecutors defending their questioning of Bonds before a grand jury, and urging a judge to keep the slugger's perjury prosecution on track.

Bonds had argued that the questions posed to him by prosecutors were ambiguous and confusing. He demanded that the five-count indictment charging him with lying to a grand jury be tossed out. Bonds has pleaded not guilty.

In the filing, prosecutors said Bonds was specifically told before he began testifying in 2003 that he could consult with his lawyers or ask for a question rephrased if he ever got confused.

"Bonds never said he was confused or asked the prosecutor to rephrase a question," the government's filing stated.

Instead, they said their questions left no doubt that they were asking Bonds about his drug use and his relationship with personal trainer Greg Anderson.

Prosecutors said "as the evidence at trial will show, each count charges that Bonds repeatedly lied in answering the same question or questions on the same subject matter."

The matter will be the subject of a court hearing Feb. 29.


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[Mr Falcone]

That just amazes me. Positive huh?