We discuss steroids on HGHwatch.com because hGH is almost never given by antiaging clinics and other on its own. hGH is almost always given with anabolic steroids, in part because hGH rarely provides any appreciable benefit, but the hucksters still want to sell it to you!
A study of 12 male weightlifters who were long-term users of anabolic steroids found that the drugs can cause significant damage to the heart, the Los Angeles Times reported April 27.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital studied the amount of blood pumped out of the heart with each contraction and found that the "ejection fraction" for the weightlifters averaged 50 percent, versus 59 percent among seven weightlifters who did not take steroids. Diastolic function -- the left ventricle's ability to relax and fill with blood -- also was significantly impaired among the drug users, the study authors found.
"What we hope is that people start recognizing steroid use as a potential cause of heart disease and a cause of otherwise unexplained heart dysfunction in young people," said researcher Aaron L. Baggish.
The findings were published in the journal Circulation.
SALT LAKE CITY — Her grandson's nightmares are finally gone, but Ann Palizzi still lays awake some nights thinking about her daughter's murder.
Palizzi had a bad feeling leading up to Jan. 6, 2008 — her daughter Kristy Ragsdale's 30th birthday — but never did she think her daughter's husband would pull up to a church parking lot in Lehi and shoot her daughter 13 times, killing her.
The memories are back now that a lawsuit was filed Monday against Pioneer Comprehensive Medical Clinic and a doctor and nurse working there. The suit alleges the steroids and drugs prescribed for and taken by convicted murderer David Ragsdale were a factor in the slaying.
The lawsuit was filed by court-appointed representative William Jeffs on behalf of the Ragsdales' now 6- and 3-year-old sons.
It alleges that family nurse practitioner Trina West, who worked at the Draper clinic, 12433 Fort St., began prescribing two of what would become several medications on April 16, 2007: two powerful steroids called testosterone and pregnenolone, which are listed as schedule III controlled substances. On May 2, West increased David Ragsdale's doses of both drugs. The lawsuit states that in each instance, West did not consult the physician over her, Dr. Hugo Rodier, or any other medical doctor about placing Ragsdale on the drugs or increasing the dosages.
On July 9, 2007, the lawsuit alleges, West added Concerta, a psychostimulant drug known as methylphenidate that has similar risks associated with methamphetamine, to the drugs Ragsdale was taking.
West allegedly diagnosed Ragsdale with attention deficit disorder to justify the prescription for Concerta, the suit states.
On Sept. 5, the dosage of Concerta was doubled from 36 milligrams to 72 mg per day.
Just a few months later, on Dec. 20, Kristy Ragsdale obtained a restraining order against David Ragsdale, the day before he returned to the Draper clinic, and according to the lawsuit, was experiencing "toxic side effects from the combination of his prescribed medications."
Besides Concerta at 54 mg daily and the two steroids Pregnenolone at 600 mg daily and Testosterone at 200 mg weekly, Ragsdale was also taking the tranquilizer Valium at 5 mg daily, anti depressants Doxepin at 100 mg and Paxil at 40 mg daily. He was also taking a hair-loss medication, Propecia, at 1 mg daily.
Blood toxicology reports showed Ragsdale was within the prescribed ranges of all his medications and found no traces of any illicit substances at the time of the shooting.
During the sentencing in which David Ragsdale pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, a capital offense that was amended to a first-degree felony on June 2, 2008, he said he believed the drugs he was taking played a part in the Jan. 6 incident when he "snapped."
"I want you to know that I am confident I would not have taken Kristy's life had I not been on the medications I was on, but that being said, I take full responsibility for my actions," he said in an interview with the Deseret News at the time of the sentencing.
Ragsdale had also been charged with two counts of third-degree felony domestic violence in the presence of a child, which were later dismissed.
Utah County Prosecutor Craig Johnson said during the case that prosecutors consulted several experts about how serious an impairment a "cocktail of numerous medications" could cause and whether it would mitigate Ragsdale's criminal intent to shoot his wife.
"We didn't find that any of that evidence rose to a level of reasonable doubt," Johnson said.
The lawsuit claims that West was negligent in not consulting with a medical doctor in prescribing and increasing dosages of the medications and for keeping Ragsdale on the medications despite signs of toxicity. Rodier and the Draper clinic are also named in the suit. The plaintiffs request general and special damages, and punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
Matthew was just 17...a fit, healthy lad set to join his beloved Marines. Then he tried out body build drugs at his gym and was...
Maria Edwards
Anguished Tina and Chris Dear have launched a crusade against steroids after their fitness fanatic teenage son died through using the body-building drug.
Matthew was months away from his 18th birthday and his dream of joining the Royal Marines when he bought a £40 batch of black market steroids at his local gym to boost his physique.
He took them for just three weeks - but they caused a fatal swelling to his brain and within days he was dead.
And his parents are convinced he would have never have touched the drug if he had been probably informed about the consequences.
Speaking exclusively to The People a year after the tragedy, Tina and Chris told how they are struggling to come to terms with their loss - made harder after the pair who supplied the pills were only handed community service orders at a court hearing last month.
Tina, 43, said: "Everyone talks about crack, heroin and cocaine - but nobody talks about steroids.
"Yet there are more youngsters taking body-building supplements than hard drugs."
And Chris, 45, said: "We didn't give steroids a thought.
"Matt lived for joining the armed forces - but he fell to pieces before our eyes."
The Dears had no idea about their son's drug-taking until he collapsed at home and confessed while being taken on a stretcher into an ambulance.
But the damage to his body had already been done - despite taking the pills for less than a month.
Chris said: "Young people and parents need to aware about the dangers of steroids.
"We didn't see any physical changes in our son until it was too late.
"If only we had known he had been tempted we could have talked him out of it."
Matthew had been a member of the Royal Marine Sea Cadets since he was 12 and had always had his heart set on taking the naval force's selection exam and fitness test when he was 18.
After leaving school at 16 he worked part-time as a postman alongside his dad and did a bit of gardening to make some money.
He spent the rest of his time training at a local gym or keeping fit with runs near his home in Southend, Essex.
Tina said: "Matthew was so health conscious - he didn't smoke, rarely drank and never ate chocolate.
"He was dedicated to preparing for his fitness test.
"He didn't even touch painkillers, so we never thought he would turn to steroids."
When Matthew suddenly began vomiting one Monday morning in April 2009 his parents at first put it down to food-poisoning. Tina, the tears welling in her eyes, recalled: "He started feeling unwell and was quite sick.
"At the time he was working at Royal Mail and gardening for extra money as well as seeing his girlfriend and training, so we put it down to Matt burning the candle at both ends."
But after he returned from a party days later, the teenager suddenly found he could not walk - and within minutes he collapsed.
His terrified parents dialled 999 and an ambulance dashed to their home.
It was only as he was being carried out by paramedics that he told them he had been using the class-C drug methandienone - an anabolic steroid.
Matthew's parents were left reeling - particularly because their son had shown none of the telltale signs of drug use.
Chris said: "I was totally shocked. I thought I would be able to tell if my children were taking drugs from the moodswings or spots.
"So we were stunned when he told the paramedic he had been using steroids for three and a half weeks after buying 50 pills for £40 from a guy in his gym."
But his parents' horror subsided after the teenager was discharged from hospital the following morning.
Chris said: "While I was angry at him for taking drugs, we were so relieved Matt was on the mend and we knew what was making him ill."
But the couple's jubilation was to be short-lived.
Just 24 hours later, Matthew's speech began to slur and Chris and Tina rushed him back to A&E. His condition deteriorated rapidly and doctors were forced to sedate the ailing youngster, who was by now screaming and writhing in agony.
Matthew was immediately moved to intensive care.
But his brain had swollen so dramatically it had caused brain-stem death - and medics were powerless to save him. He died days later.
Devastated Tina - a learning support assistant - said: "When we walked out of hospital hand-in-hand that morning, I couldn't believe our boy was dead."
And Chris said: "He was my pride and joy. He never let me down.
"He was a beautiful kid - someone I looked up to."
Matthew's sudden death meant his parents never got the chance to ask him why he had chosen to take the drug.
Chris believes Matthew turned to anabolic steroids in a bid to make him stronger before trying to sign up with the elite unit he idolised.
He said: "When you join the Marines it is very tough and Matthew was worried he needed more upper-body strength.
"He didn't want to be Arnold Schwarzenegger but he wanted to be strong enough for the job."
Two post-mortems later discovered the strapping teenager had no underlying health problems.
But experts could not agree whether steroids had caused his death because he had taken them for such a short time.
The conflicting medical views meant a court did not take Matthew's death into account when the pair involved in supplying the drug were sentenced last month.
The court ruled prosecutors could not prove "beyond reasonable doubt" the steroids had killed the teenager.
In another cruel blow to his shattered family, Alexander Moss-Austin, 18, and 21-year-old Garry Penny - both from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex - were given 160 hours' community service and a year's supervision order by Basildon Crown Court.
Chris, his face still etched with anguish and anger, said: "I was gutted.
"I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach when I walked out of the court.
"Moss-Austin was the man in Matthew's gym saying, 'Look at my body and how big I've got - look what you can be if you take steroids'.
"He will never know what he has done to this family and what we have lost."
Tina added: "We know the steroids killed our son.
"He never had any problems before that."
Now Chris and Tina - who have four other children Peter, 17, Michael, 14, Anthony, 11, and Ellen, seven - are determined to use Matthew's death to highlight the dangers of steroids to other youngsters.
Working with Essex Police's 2 Smart campaign - which tours schools warning children about drugs, alcohol and weapons - they are intent on educating kids on the perils of musclebuilding drugs like methandienone, which can only be legally sold at pharmacies.
Chris said: "The law around steroids is very cloudy.
"You can legally buy them and take them but it's illegal to sell them.
"And doctors have got to make up their minds as to whether they think steroids kill or don't kill.
"All the confusion with the law and medics sends out mixed messages."
Chris added: "The only thing we can do is try to raise awareness and educate those who are tempted to take them."
And Tina said: "It's only since this happened to Matt and by speaking to other people that we realised steroids have become a huge problem for kids.
"Part of the problem is youngsters like Matthew don't see them as drugs.
"They perceive them like a supplement because they are for body building.
"But they are drugs - and the people that sell them are drug dealers."
Heartbroken Tina added: "We never in a million years thought Matthew was going to die from taking steroids - and I don't think he did either."
As well as their schools crusade, the couple have flooded their local area with leaflets featuring a harrowing photograph of Matthew as he lay dying in his hospital bed to spell out the horrific price of taking steroids.
Chris and Tina have also set up a website called www.matt-dear.vpweb.co.uk to plug the campaign.
But the stark reality for the couple is that the pain of losing their first-born child will never leave them.
Chris said: "He was such a lovely boy, as good as gold.
"Every day I wake up thinking about him and I go to bed thinking about him. He is everywhere I look."
A world-famous expert on steroids last night spelled out just how dangerous it is to use the drugs.
Toxicologist Dr Andrew Kicman said: "They are powerful and the effects can be seen within weeks.
"One of the areas of particular concern are their effects on the cardiovascular system, particularly the heart, which can cause sudden death.
"A study by the Government's drug advisors stated anabolic steroids were more harmful than ecstasy."
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The law rates anabolic steroids as Class C drugs - and that means they can only be legally sold on prescription by pharmacists
Possession of steroids with intent to supply is a crime carrying a sentence of up to 14 years' jail and an unlimited fine
Side-effects include sterility, gangrene, violent mood-swings, ulcers, vein damage, acne, insomnia and male breast growth
THE INTELLIGENCER. Wheeling New Register By IAN HICKS Staff Writer
POSTED: December 10, 2009
NEW CUMBERLAND - As Mark Mentzer waits to answer felony charges in an alleged plot to bomb Weir High School, his mother will serve six months' probation for giving him anabolic steroids while he was still a minor.
Karen Mentzer of Weirton pleaded no contest Monday to contributing to the delinquency of a minor before Hancock County Circuit Judge Martin Gaughan.
Hancock County Prosecutor James Davis Jr. said Mentzer gave the drug to her son, now 19, to use while lifting weights. Mark Mentzer was still 17 years old at the time.
Davis said in April 2008, school officials discovered two vials of powder containing nandrolone decanoate in Mark Mentzer's possession at the John D. Rockefeller Career Center in New Cumberland, a vocational school serving public school students in Hancock County.
That substance, commonly used to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, is illegal without a prescription, Davis said.
When school authorities contacted Karen Mentzer seeking proof of a prescription for the steroids, Davis said she admitted to purchasing them over the Internet.
If she violates the terms of her probation, Davis said Karen Mentzer could be sentenced on the original felony charge of delivering a controlled substance to a minor, which carries a prison sentence of one to five years.
Davis said there is no apparent connection between the alleged bomb plot at the high school and the charges against Karen Mentzer.
Mark Mentzer currently is facing four felony counts including making terrorist threats, possessing explosive materials without a permit and prohibiting civil rights in connection with his alleged role in a plot to bomb Weir High School in September.
He also is charged with nighttime burglary in a separate incident.
Upon searching the Mentzer home, police reportedly discovered weapons, racist writings, bomb-making materials and a map of Weir High School.
Those discoveries, as well as threatening text messages sent to students at the school, led to the arrests of Mark Mentzer and Josh Little, another 19-year-old senior at the high school.
A preliminary hearing for Mark Mentzer is scheduled for March 22 in Hancock County Magistrate Court.
Davis said a Hancock County grand jury will likely hear the case against Little, who previously waived his right to a preliminary hearing in magistrate court, in April.
There are many horror stories regarding the usage of steroids. The conviction of former Olympic medalist sprinter Marion Jones and the admission of former All Star baseball player Jose Canseco are proof that illegal usage of steroids is in both amateur and professional sports. Known in street terms as "Juice," "Pumpers" and "Weight Trainers," casual gymgoers to professional athletes have been using them for decades to sculpture their physiques and build up their strength. Jack Banks and Paul Carson have been in the gym business for nearly three decades. They own the Powerhouse Gym on Webster Square in Berlin and Malibu Fitness at Executive Drive in Farmington. The two have made a career of being athletically fit, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and helping others achieve those goals. Both of them take a very hard line against the use of steroids. Banks is a former amateur boxer and at one time was a strength and conditioning coach for Central Connecticut State University. Carson was a professional body builder that competed for nearly two decades in drug-free competitions. In 1993, Carson won the Mr. Drug Free USA Bodybuilding Championship. The two have a policy of deterring steroid users of attending their gyms. While both admit that steroid usage has declined from the 1980s, both believe it is still prevalent today. According to the Office of National Drug Policy, steroid usage carries a wide array of health risks. Its Web site lists liver cancer, heart attacks and elevated cholesterol levels as some of the more well-known side effects. The Web site also cites that withdrawal of steroids can also cause behavioral problems such as mood swings, fatigue, restlessness and even depression that can lead to suicide. "I know many horror stories of people that used [steroids]," Carson said. "The one that stands out most is that of a bodybuilder I knew who had open heart surgery before he even turned the age of 40. Unfortunately he has had several surgeries since." Banks relayed his own story of a steroid using weightlifter that needed to have surgery to remove excess tissue from around his pectoral muscles. The man developed a condition called Gynecomastia. Gynecomastia as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as a condition of excessive development of the breast in males. Steroid usage is documented as one of the primary causes. Banks then referenced the death of former football great Lyle Alzado. The SuperBowl Winner succumbed to a rare form of Brain Cancer at the age of forty-three. In a famous 1991Sports Illustrated Interview, Alzado publicly admitted that he had been taking massive amounts of steroids and Human Growth Hormone during his National Football League career. He believed his brain cancer was the result of his use of these drugs and warned others not to follow this dangerous path. While the dangers of steroids are documented, much less is known about Human Growth Hormone, which is commonly known as by it's initials, HGH. "It's definitely more difficult to test because for you need to set parameters for what is natural in a person. I do know that it has been around for a while but I don't have an idea as to how many people could be using it," Banks said. "Sylvester Stallone has admitted to using it and he doesn't look natural for his age. I don't know as much about it negative effects but like steroids it is a shortcut and is not a good idea to use." From the 1970s until the late 1990s, most of the steroid trafficking was done at local gyms. Now the Internet is the preferred medium in which most people get access to the illegal drugs. Steroid users often have the drugs mailed to them. One of the dangers with this is that they sometimes receive counterfeit items that are more dangerous than the steroids themselves. Banks and Carson have a strict "No Steroid" usage policy at their gyms. They have asked members that were on the illegal drugs to cease their usage or find another gym. They have even turned away prospective members that were known users. "We have many young people that work out our gyms and we don't need them to have negative influences." Banks stated. Both take their roles seriously as gym owners and role models. Carson competed and even won several drug free bodybuilding championships including the Pro USA National Competition. "In thirteen years of bodybuilding competition, I only earned two thousand dollars. If I took steroids and competed in the major bodybuilding competitions I would have put on more muscle mass but who knows what the long term effects would be," Carson said. "But after all these years I can still work out and jog daily. Many of the bodybuilders that were on steroids when I was competing can't do that anymore. Their ligaments, their tendons and bodies are shot." "We tell people that steroids are a short term and short sighted answer. As soon as you cease using them you go back to your original condition," Banks said. " Steroid usage is like putting rocket fuel in a Volkswagon Beetle, there has to be an equal reaction and there will eventually be a breakdown." Despite this advice there are still people that will not heed to the dangers of steroids. "A few years ago I was at Block Island and a teenager came up to me and complimented me on physique. He bragged to me that in a few months he would have a bigger build than me," Banks lamented. "He said he was going to use steroids that he would get from the Internet. I asked him why he would risk his health for something that was fleeting. I told him that he wouldn't keep all that body mass and strength. He wouldn't listen." Still Banks and Carson encourage others to achieve a healthy body naturally through exercise and proper dieting. Banks had this to say about his steroids philosophy. In the twenty-five years that Paul and I have been in the gym business, our position towards steroids still has not changed. Don't use them."
The typical male steroid user is 30 years old, well-educated, Caucasian, and working in a white-collar job, not an athlete or teenager looking to get a competitive edge, according to a new study.
Fox News reported Oct. 11 that researchers who conducted an Internet survey of about 2,000 males in the U.S. found that these 30-something steroid users were taking the drugs to increase muscle mass, strength and physical attractiveness, and not for sports. These typical users also cited factors like increased confidence, decreased fat, improved mood and attraction of sex partners are playing into their decision to use steroids.
Unlike users of other drugs, steroid users also tend to be strategic planners who monitor their dose carefully to increase benefits and minimize harm, researchers said. "This is simply not a style or pattern of use we typically see when we examine substance abuse," said study co-author Jack Darkes of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Institute at the University of South Florida.
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Posted by Eric on 05 Feb 09 10:39 AM EST
In my experience, most body builders/steroid users exhibit symptom patterns more consitent with an atypical eating disorder as opposed to a substance abuse disorder. {DR. PERLS-- I ALSO SHOWED THIS COMMENT AS I AM GUESSING THIS IS CORRECT.. AND LINKED TO NARCISISM}
Three of the seven co-defendants indicted for their role in David Jacobs’ Texas-based steroid distribution network were sentenced today including David Jacobs. All seven co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty. David Jacobs, Amber Jarrell and Matt Williams all received probation along with a monetary fine based on their respective role in the steroid operation (”Plano steroids supplier wants to help clean up NFL,” May 2)
Sentenced Thursday:Mr. Jacobs, 35, ringleader, three years’ probation and a $25,000 fine. Amber Jarrell, 37, of Plano, his former girlfriend, three years’ probation and a $1,000 fine. Matt Williams, 39, of Dallas, who helped bottle and store the steroids, three years’ probation and a $10,000 fine.
Awaiting sentences: Andrew Schenck of Dallas; Juan Carlos Ballivian of Houston; Brandon Mark Smith of the Dallas area; and Jamie Mongeau of Wichita, Kan.
The ringleader of one of the largest steroids trafficking networks in the nation said Thursday after he was sentenced to probation that he plans to meet with the NFL to share his expertise to help “clean up” football.
“I want to help them understand the loopholes, how I was able to help people beat the tests, and how prevalent steroid use is,” Plano bodybuilder David Jacobs said after his sentencing hearing.
Jacobs, a former body builder, said he advised about 10 N.F.L. players on how to exploit loopholes in the league’s drug-testing program. One way, he said, was to have team doctors write them prescriptions for drugs that would mask steroid use…
Jacobs said he advised players, including Lehr, to ask their team doctors to write them prescriptions for finasteride, a drug used to treat balding in young men. Jacobs said a Falcons team doctor wrote Lehr a prescription for the substance.
Now that the leader of one of the largest steroid distribution rings in the country was sentenced to probation along with two other co-conspirators, it seems to confirm that steroid dealers were not the targets of the federal steroid investigation in Texas. It appears that the real targets of the investigation are professional athletes, namely NFL football players with David Jacobs providing the steroids and football link.
Oklahoma Steroid Crackdown Involving Competitive Bodybuilders Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control and the Tulsa Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit are preparing to make arrests in a major steroid bust in Oklahoma involving a gym owner and supplement store owner (Chris Goodman) along with at least one amateur bodybuilder (Keith Koppenhaver) and one professional bodybuilder (Guy Ducasse).
Chris Goodman is allegedly a major distributor of anabolic steroids and performance enhancement drugs in Tulsa. Goodman is the owner of Hi-Octane Fitness (formerly Physical Edge) and co-owner of Supplement Shak stores in Oklahoma City and Tulsa (”Probe nets steroids tied to Tulsa fitness center,” April 20).
Undercover officers have discovered evidence of steroid use at the fitness center and distribution by either Goodman or other members at the fitness center, according to court records.
That evidence includes syringes, bank statements, computer software, cell phone records and financial records belonging to either Goodman or the fitness center.
A confidential informant has told undercover officers that Goodman was “actively distributing steroids” and that “individuals associated with Physical Edge often use and/or distribute steroids,” according to court records.
NPC bodybuilder Keith Koppenhaver, who last competed at the 2000 NPC Junior Nationals, has also been implicated. Koppenhaver was a personal trainer at Physical Edge (Hi-Octane) and a friend of Chris Goodman.
Undercover officers seized several types of steroids, human growth hormone, insulin and other dangerous, controlled substances from Koppenhaver’s home or property, according to court records.
He has admitted to undercover officers that he sold steroids and never pays taxes from those sales or the money that he receives as a personal trainer, according to court records.
He has identified Goodman and a professional bodybuilder in the Oklahoma City area as his steroid suppliers, according to court records.
The IFBB Professional bodybuilder connected to the steroid distribution case is Guy Ducasse, a trainer at Sky Fitness & Wellbeing who last competed at the 2007 IFBB Europa Pro show (”Arrests expected in Tulsa steroids investigation,” April 19).
Tulsa County District Court records filed Wednesday show that officers recently searched the home and found vials of popular muscle-building steroids and human growth hormone. Among the substances found were testosterone, nandrolone decanate and stanozolol.
Also seized were e-mails to Ducasse “instructing him on bodybuilding drug use,” “handwritten notes regarding steroid cycles,” a “weekly steroid use schedule” and “7 pages of clients,” who are believed to be members of Sky Fitness & Wellbeing, 10121 S. Sheridan Road, according to the court records.
An employee at the fitness center said Friday that Ducasse trains clients at the facility.
Bad news for Oklahoma bodybuilding.
David Jacobs Sold Steroids and Growth Hormone to NFL Player Matt Lehr Sunday, April 27th, 2008 The steroid source at the center of a major federal steroid investigation in Texas has, for the first time, publicly named NFL football player Matt Lehr (currently with the New Orleans Saints) as a customer. Matt Lehr has been a target of the investigation for some time. David Jacobs claims to have sold significant quantities of performance enhancing drugs to Matt Lehr, including anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (”Plano steroids dealer says he sold to former Dallas Cowboys player,” April 27).
Mr. Jacobs, 35, said, “I sold steroids and a significant amount of growth hormone to Matt Lehr.” He said Mr. Lehr’s purchases totaled tens of thousands of dollars from spring 2006 to spring 2007, significantly larger quantities than could be for personal use.
At one point, Mr. Jacobs said, Mr. Lehr agreed to have boxes of raw steroid powder from China shipped to Mr. Lehr’s house in Georgia. Mr. Jacobs said he asked his former friend to do this because too many packages headed to his Plano house were being seized by U.S. Customs.
David Jacobs has previously denied providing federal prosecutors with the names of customers who bought steroids from him stressing that evidence and associations with Lehr were established independent of his cooperation. He has repeatedly been advised by his attorney to avoid publicly naming names. Why did Jacobs name Matt Lehr this weekend?
Mr. Jacobs said he was speaking out now because he was angry about Mr. Coggins’ statements last week to The News.
“We have been told by the prosecutors that they do not intend to bring charges against Matt Lehr in connection with their ongoing steroid investigation,” Mr. Coggins said Wednesday.
“It’s an issue of right and wrong,” Mr. Jacobs said. “I’m taking responsibility for my actions. And I’m not blaming people for my mistakes. I’m not going to lay down while other people attack my character and my integrity and accuse me of extortion and lies and making up information. It’s time for Matt to be a man.”
Paul Coggins, Matt Lehr’s attorney, claims that David Jacobs is providing false information in exchange for prosecutorial leniency in sentencing; Coggins also told the New York Times that Jacobs tried to extort money from Matt Lehr.
“He threatened Matt and said you have to pay my attorney’s fees or I am going to end your career,” Coggins said in a telephone interview on Saturday. He said Lehr met Jacobs when they were bodybuilders.
“Jacobs saw Matt as a guy with a lot of money and Matt declined to pay his fees,” Coggins added.
Coggins, the former United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said he had represented Lehr for three months. “We are confident that the more the feds look at Jacobs, the less credible of a source of information he becomes,” Coggins said.
It will be interesting to see how Matt Lehr’s attorney responds to David Jacobs’ latest allegations along with evidence of significant financial links between Lehr and Jacobs.
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