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Melky Cabrera eyed for failed plot?
San Francisco Giants star outfielder Melky Cabrera mounted a campaign to avoid his 50-game suspension that included a fake website featuring a fictitious product in an effort that was quickly uncovered by MLB investigators, the New York Daily News has reported.
Citing an anonymous source close to the case and an associate who told the newspaper he was "accepting responsibility for what everyone else already knows" concerning the fake site, the Daily News reported famed investigator Jeff Novitzky and agents from MLB's investigative arm have begun looking into the scheme purportedly hatched in July.
"There was a product they said caused this positive," the source told the Daily News. "Baseball figured out the ruse pretty quickly."
Cabrera's suspension was announced Wednesday.
Juan Nunez, who has been described by Cabrera's agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, as a "paid consultant" of their firm but not an "employee," is alleged to have paid $10,000 to purchase the fake website, according to the report.
The purpose was to fool MLB and the players' union, while presenting them with the website and resulting phony product information, into believing Cabrera had ordered a supplement fraudulently spiked with testosterone, therefore causing the positive drug test, the report says. Players who test positive are allowed, as part of the collective bargaining agreement that covers the MLB's drug program, to try and prove they ingested a banned substance through no fault of their own.
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San Francisco Giants star outfielder Melky Cabrera mounted a campaign to avoid his 50-game suspension that included a fake website featuring a fictitious product in an effort that was quickly uncovered by MLB investigators, the New York Daily News has reported.
Citing an anonymous source close to the case and an associate who told the newspaper he was "accepting responsibility for what everyone else already knows" concerning the fake site, the Daily News reported famed investigator Jeff Novitzky and agents from MLB's investigative arm have begun looking into the scheme purportedly hatched in July.
"There was a product they said caused this positive," the source told the Daily News. "Baseball figured out the ruse pretty quickly."
Cabrera's suspension was announced Wednesday.
Juan Nunez, who has been described by Cabrera's agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, as a "paid consultant" of their firm but not an "employee," is alleged to have paid $10,000 to purchase the fake website, according to the report.
The purpose was to fool MLB and the players' union, while presenting them with the website and resulting phony product information, into believing Cabrera had ordered a supplement fraudulently spiked with testosterone, therefore causing the positive drug test, the report says. Players who test positive are allowed, as part of the collective bargaining agreement that covers the MLB's drug program, to try and prove they ingested a banned substance through no fault of their own.
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