It happens often that when sportspeople test positive for any forbidden products, they try to prove that they have never taken any prohibited preparation intentionally. They find various ways to manifest that they are not guilty. They do a lot in order to avoid suspensions and/or other sanctions. Here is a situation.
The baseball player Melky Cabrera tested positive for the anabolic steroid testosterone. Of course, he was sentenced to a 50-game suspension. Like other athletes he decided to find a way to prove his innocence and avoid the suspension.
A lot of doping athletes who are caught affirm that they have taken a dietary supplement which caused positive for certain forbidden substance. However several athletes may have applied contaminated dietary supplements, numerous athletes administer steroids and choose this way of defense because it works in many cases.
Thus, Melky Cabrera confirmed that he had administered a dietary supplement which led to his positive for testosterone. Actually, it was a lie. Trying to escape from the 50-game suspension, he also created a web site and posted a fictitious product and advertisements that induced selling it. The supplement didn’t exist in reality. It was just a hoax of Melky Cabrera and his associates in order to defend the professional baseball player.
Juan Nunez, a paid consultant for Athletes’ Career Enhanced and Secured Incorporated (ACES), was the person that created the site.
But the lie turned out to be unsuccessful. The MLB exposed the baseball player and Juan Nunez. Thus, the baseball player was enforced to serve the ban.
The ACES got troubles as well. Since Juan Nunez has been a consultant for ACES, the agency and Seth and Sam Levinson were accused of involving in the hoax. But these persons confirmed that they were not implicated in the creation of the site and the hoax which was thought out by Melky Cabrera and Juan Nunez. Juan Nunez also confirmed that Seth and Sam Levinson had not been involved in this hoax.
The Food and Drug Administration is still investigating the case. It is not clear yet whether other persons would be also pursued and punished for the hoax.
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