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[Porter Fischer] I get a call
from Gary Jones.
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He is our tanning technician
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that changes bulbs and fixes wires
on tanning beds
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at Boca Tanning Club at Boca Raton.
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He calls me up.
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"Hey, why don't you... You gotta stop
by the salon. I'll meet you there.
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I got this new solution,
you're gonna love it."
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I show up.
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I parked in the back.
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Gary's there, Anthony's there.
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And he's like, "Well, go on in there,
go try the solution."
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So I go in there, and I get the spray tan.
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I come back out and Gary's in the lobby.
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"Hey, yo, how does it smell?
Oh, the color looks fantastic.
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Hey, how did... Doesn't the color
look fantastic?" Blah, blah.
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"Hey, you know what, that's great,
I'm gonna go give it a try."
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Got my shoes on
and I'm walking out to my car.
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And I see my door's open,
and my trunk is open.
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"Is that my car?"
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Everything's gone.
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So I go running back into the salon
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and I yell at the girl.
I said, "Call 911. Call 911."
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I went back to the room
and I'm banging on the door.
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I'm like, "Gary, get out here,
I've been robbed!"
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He's like, "What?"
I'm like, "Somebody broke into my car,
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and took all my shit. Took everything."
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The cop shows up.
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I'm jumping up and down,
I'm telling the cop,
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"Look, they took everything.
They took everything."
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And he's like, "Calm down."
I'm like, "They took evidence.
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They took State's evidence,
for a criminal case."
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"Whoa, what are you talking about?"
I go, "Biogenesis.
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Biogenesis. Baseball. Alex.
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You know who... You know
what I'm talking about? A-Rod!"
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[audience cheering]
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[man] Play ball!
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[Tony Bosch] I was living in a hotel room
at The Ritz in Key Biscayne.
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It was private. I was looking for privacy.
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You know, I was going through
this separation, through the divorce,
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and it was an emotional time,
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it was a time of decisions.
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[audience cheering]
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One day, I was sitting at the hotel bar,
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like I did, probably
at three or four o'clock everyday,
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drowning my sorrows,
and I overheard the bartender
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speaking with the other bartender.
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And they were discussing
how they work out in the gym
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and what they use in the gym
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and how Equipoise is better than Winstrol
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or how to take steroids, growth hormones,
and performance-enhancing drugs.
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"Listen, with all due respect,
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I don't want to get involved
in your business
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but I think you're doing that
a little wrong."
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And he says, "Well, what do you mean?"
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"I don't think you should use
the growth hormone
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with the dosages that you're using,
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and the way you're using it.
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You have a natural production
of growth hormone in the evening.
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You have one in the morning.
But the one in the evening
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is a lot greater
than the one in the morning,
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and, you know, you should then follow
that same pattern
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of growth hormone release."
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He says, "Well, I don't understand,
nobody explained it like this.
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The guy in the gym, my trainer
told me to take it like this.
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Can you repeat that,
but so I can understand?"
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I said, "Yeah, sure, not a problem."
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So I took a napkin and I wrote
the whole thing down on the napkin.
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About five days later,
he sees me, he says,
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"That's a great protocol!
My workouts are unbelievable.
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I feel re-energized. I lost a few pounds.
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Do you mind if you could
help my wife out, too?"
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Four or five days later,
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he comes back, he says,
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"My wife is dying to meet you.
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She has about three friends for you."
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So, really, at the end of the day,
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I acquired my first clients
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at a bar at The Ritz.
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That's really the origin story
of me in Miami,
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starting my anti-aging clinic.
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[Tim Elfrink] Tony Bosch has a really
typical Miami, Cuban-American story
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that's also pretty extraordinary
in its own ways.
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[audience cheering]
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His dad is a licensed physician
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who studied in Cuba and actually
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trained in a hospital in Havana
during the revolution.
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[Bosch] My parents,
they were both physicians.
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[Elfrink] He also was related to a guy
named Orlando Bosch
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who ended up becoming
one of the most famous
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anti-Castro terrorists in Miami history.
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[female reporter] Dr. Orlando Bosch
served four years in jail here
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for the late '60s bazooka attack
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on a Polish ship in the port of Miami.
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From the moment I remember,
we were playing stickball in the street,
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you know, or some form of baseball.
I wanted to be a baseball player.
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You know, what kid didn't want to be
a baseball player and play for the Mets?
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These guys were like my heroes,
you know, growing up.
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I started playing baseball
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in Christopher Columbus
High School, Miami.
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It's an all boys private Catholic school.
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Alex Rodriguez, he went there, too.
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He wasn't A-Rod back then,
he was just Alex Rodriguez.
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It was a breeding ground for ball players.
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Cuban-Americans, the sons of refugees,
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they had this passion for the sport.
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[Elfrink] It's not a surprise,
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considering this is basically
the capital of Latin America
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and baseball is enormous
in a lot of these countries.
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[speaking Spanish]
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[Pedro Gomez] I think, even though
a lot of people associate football
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to the state of Florida and to Miami,
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baseball is king.
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You go to any high school here,
there are...
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[chuckles] Stars in the making.
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Jose Canseco, Rafael Palmeiro,
Danny Tartabull,
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Lenny Harris.
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Heroes in the game in that era
had to be, hands down, Jose Canseco.
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I mean, he was a real deal.
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With or without the steroids,
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you know, I believe
he was a great ball player.
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And the Cuban people in Miami
was very proud of him.
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He was a role model, he was a hero.
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It was the American dream.
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But my all time hero was Pete Rose.
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Charlie Hustle.
I just loved the way he played.
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He played hard, he played with a passion,
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he played with a love for the sport,
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he was everything, you know,
to me growing up.
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Yeah, I think the Cubans are a little
permissive with their heroes.
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You know, the first year,
I didn't play much
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and I think I was more interested
in girls back then. In the party scene.
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I got kicked off the team,
I think two times.
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One for smoking weed,
you know, getting high. [chuckles]
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Another time for showing up
late to practice
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or not showing up.
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It was just...
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Thinking back on, it was a disaster.
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You know... [laughing]
I'm better off as a fan than a player.
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My plan after high school was definitely
go into the family business.
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You know, go into medicine.
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[Elfrink] Uh, unfortunately, you know,
privilege alone isn't enough
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to get a medical degree.
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You kinda have to have the drive,
you have to have the intelligence.
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And, uh, Tony didn't have what it took
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to become a doctor in the United States.
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[Bosch] So, I said, you know,
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the fastest path
is a foreign medical school.
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Belize is the only English-speaking
country in Central America.
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That's why I chose Belize Medical College.
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That program was
a three-and-a-half year program.
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You could obtain your doctor degree
in allopathic medicine,
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which basically means, you know,
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M.D., Medical Doctor.
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The Belize School of Medical
and Performing Arts,
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I believe is the actual title.
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Let's just say it doesn't meet
typical US standards
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for a medical school.
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And that's where I basically decided
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I wanted to get
into the anti-aging business.
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Florida was known for Ponce de León
and the Fountain of Youth.
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And so it was very fitting
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to, you know, open up here in Miami.
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What is Miami about?
What is Florida about?
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It's about vanity and sex.
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Florida, the penis of America!
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Florida, the penis of America.
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It was a perfect place
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for the anti-aging movement.
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Florida became the anti-aging capital
of the world
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'cause of the laws
in the anti-aging industry.
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There was no laws.
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The anti-aging clinics
had exploded in numbers
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by the time I got here in 2011.
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[audience cheering]
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And basically, you'd have doctors,
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or people who pretended to be doctors,
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giving all types of medical advice.
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Um, and in many times,
writing prescriptions.
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There's almost no regulations,
so anyone can open one of these clinics,
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even someone as unqualified as Tony Bosch.
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And he jumps right in, he starts off
with a clinic in Key Biscayne
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which is a very wealthy island town
just off Miami.
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[Bosch] The role I took was basically
as an educator.
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I considered myself the scientist
behind the scenes,
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rather than a, you know, physician.
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[Hill] Anthony Bosch was
portraying himself as a medical doctor
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by giving people anti-aging supplements.
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Testosterone, HGH, so on and so forth,
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which he was not licensed to do here
in the state of Florida,
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or in any other state in the union.
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I didn't have prescription powers
in the state of Florida,
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but the doctors that worked for me did.
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He would find a doctor,
an actual licensed doctor,
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to put their name on the operation.
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His most obvious solution
was his own father,
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who was a licensed doctor,
who had a prescription pad.
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And for several of the anti-aging clinics
was listed as the Medical Director.
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Thousands of doctors
retire to Florida, basically,
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when they're done operating
a practice elsewhere in the country,
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and these doctors rent out
their prescription pads
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and their DEA numbers,
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so that people like Tony Bosch
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can get drugs and run anti-aging clinics.
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And they get a little cut of the profit.
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They had a prescription pad
from one doctor
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who died while the clinic was operating
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and was continued to be listed
as a Medical Director
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for years after his death.
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I thought he was still alive.
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But yeah, and then...
And then his partner told me,
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"No, he died, so I'm writing
the prescriptions from now on."
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The initial inspiration
behind the anti-aging offices
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was really to provide
hormone replacement therapy
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for all types of patients.
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For weight loss, menopausal women...
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It was never intended to be
for sports performance.
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But as a baseball fan, I was definitely
following what was going on
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with doping in baseball.
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[Gomez] Over a 20-year period or so,
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there were dozens of players
that all of a sudden
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started hitting 50, 60, even 70 home runs
in a season.
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[man] Power.
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Music with more muscle.
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[Gomez] Things that had never happened
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in the 100-plus-year history of the game.
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Often, Major League Baseball has been
complicit and profited from it.
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[announcer] Major League Baseball
Productions presents...
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[reading]
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Never before have two men so captured
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the imagination of the baseball world.
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I wanna thank both Mark McGwire
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and Sammy Sosa
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for providing us with a home run chase
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that has captivated sports fans
around the world.
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[Elfrink] Ask any baseball scholar
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how important
the McGwire-Sosa home run race was
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to bring the fans back
after the strike in 1994,
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and then ask them if that race
ever would've happened without steroids.
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And I think that's
the only answer you need
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about the relationship baseball's had
from profiting from these drugs.
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[Gomez] You know, you go back
to playoff games that the A's played
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at Fenway Park, and the crowd is chanting,
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"Steroids, steroids,"
while Canseco's playing right field.
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And what does Jose do?
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He turns to the crowd and he flexes.
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[Elfrink] Things came to a head
in the early 2000s,
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especially after the BALCO scandal.
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[reporter] The Federal probe into
this Bay Area nutritional lab
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has targeted Barry Bonds'
personal trainer, Greg Anderson.
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That, confirmed one day
after Major League Baseball disclosed
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that between five and seven percent
of its first ever steroid tests
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turned up positive,
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triggering a new policy
of escalating discipline.
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[George W. Bush] The use
of performance-enhancing drugs
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like steroids
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in baseball, football and other sports,
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is dangerous
and it sends the wrong message.
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That there are shortcuts to accomplishment
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and that performance is more important
than character.
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So tonight, I call on team owners,
Union representatives,
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coaches and players to take the lead
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to send the right signal,
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to get tough
and to get rid of steroids, now.
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[applause]
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[Elfrink] And Congress got involved.
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There were hearings,
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there was a huge amount
of political pressure
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on baseball to do something.
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[man] Are you taking the Fifth?
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I'm not here to discuss the past,
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I'm here to be positive
about this subject.
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[Anderson Cooper] After years
of watching skinny players
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turning into Neanderthals,
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and 40-year-old pitchers
throwing 100-mile-an-hour fastballs,
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there weren't a lot of Americans
who were shocked today
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when George Mitchell submitted
his 409-page report
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to Major League Baseball.
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For more than a decade,
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there has been widespread illegal use
of anabolic steroids
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and other performance-enhancing substances
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by players in Major League Baseball.
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His report is a call to action
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and I will act.
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As far as the athlete was concerned,
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all of a sudden,
there's this roadblock now, right?
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Called the Mitchell Report,
all these regulations...
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You know, "We're gonna be watching you,
do more testing..."
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These agents and these trainers
started to come to me
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asking me if I can help them.
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It was obvious that they were trying
to get around the Mitchell Report.
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Now, what Tony really based
his whole sales pitch on
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is this idea called micro-dosing.
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"If you follow my instructions to a T,
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you take small doses
at exactly the right time,
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you will get the boost,
you will get the energy and the strength,
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but it won't be enough
of any of these drugs to set off
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the alarm bells,
if you get tested after a game."
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[Bosch] In 2007,
a baseball agent came to me
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and he was talking about a client of his.
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The way he put it was,
"I don't know what's wrong with this guy,
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he can't even pick up a bat
and put it on his shoulders."
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You know, "He's tired all the time,
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he's not the same ball player
that he was before."
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I took a look at all his blood work.
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The testosterone levels
were at levels of a 90-year-old man.
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I said, "All right," you know,
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"This guy obviously needs, you know,
some type of testosterone therapy.
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You wanna tell me who it is?"
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He told me, "Yeah, it's Manny Ramirez."
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When I first met him,
he came in and he hugged me.
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And when he hugged me,
he like patted me down.
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I thought he was hugging me,
you know, out of love.
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But it was basically... [laughing]
He was patting me down.
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You know, from there, I was able
to put a protocol together
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in order to address
the testosterone deficiency.
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As soon as I got
his testosterone levels up,
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you started to see the flashes
of the old Manny.
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Within weeks, his focus was much better.
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He felt a lot quicker,
he wasn't tired anymore.
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And of course, his power was back.
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"Dr. T, wow, I feel like
a million dollars.
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I see the ball like a grapefruit.
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It's coming at me, I can see
the stitching on the ball."
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[ball whooshing]
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Manny was the first VIP client that I had
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that I actually traveled with
and actually hit the road with him.
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If he was playing in Boston,
I was in Boston.
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If he was in Chicago, I was in Chicago.
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He was in a hotel room
and I was just a couple of suites away.
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In case we would meet up with anybody,
or if anybody asked,
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I was never Dr. T in front of anybody.
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I was never...
You know, I was the marketing guy,
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or I was his promotion guy, his publicist.
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Manny being Manny,
very eccentric character.
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Almost like a cartoon character.
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He was quirky about some things,
to say the least.
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You know, one of the things,
he didn't like to sleep by himself.
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Not only didn't he like
to sleep by himself,
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but he wanted a good bedtime story.
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I found myself,
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a couple of times,
sleeping in the same room next to him,
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you know, on a different bed obviously,
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and speaking to him until he fell asleep.
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There was an initial fee, $40,000.
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As our relationship grew,
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probably about two years, '07 to '09,
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so did his regimen
and so did the cost of it.
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Listen, each home run costs money.
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2007, his home run total was 20
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and in 2008 it was 37.
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That difference is a big deal
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when it comes to multi-million dollar
contracts and free agency.
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-I'm back!
-[reporters laughing]
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[reporter] After months of haggling,
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Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers
have come to terms
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on a two-year contract worth $45 million.
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I remember when, um, when the news broke,
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February 2009, about A-Rod
testing positive.
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[reporter] Rodriguez has admitted doping
from 2001 to 2003.
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I screwed up big time.
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But I think the only thing I ask
from this group today,
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and the American people,
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is to judge me from this day forward.
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That's all I can ask for.
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[interviewer] What was your reaction
when you heard
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Alex Rodriguez admitted to using
performance-enhancing drugs?
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I don't know, I was just enjoying myself,
playing the game.
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And I wasn't paying any mind to that.
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[interviewer] Has anyone
ever approached you
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-anytime during your career about using...
-No.
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-You were never tempted?
-No.
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[Bosch] Manny wasn't too concerned.
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He mentioned it, you know,
almost in passing.
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"You see what happened?
That's not gonna happen to us, right?"
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I go, "No, no, don't worry about it.
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As long as you keep the regimen
going correctly
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and doing what I'm telling you to do
and being compliant,
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nothing like that is gonna happen,"
you know.
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I'm Sage Steele again, with shocking news
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breaking about 45 minutes ago,
here on SportsCenter.
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Major League Baseball has confirmed
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that Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez
has tested positive
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for performance-enhancing drugs,
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and he will be suspended immediately
for 50 games.
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[Bosch] So I called Manny,
"Manny, what happened?"
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You know, he tells me in Spanish,
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"T, I think I fucked up," you know.
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[speaking Spanish, laughs]
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[newscaster reading]
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[Bosch] Part of his regimen
was a liquid-based testosterone
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that he would take in low quantities
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if he had a day off.
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He mistakenly injected that
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on a playing day and it just so happened
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that they tested him that day.
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I'm only as good as the protocol.
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I'm only as good as your compliance.
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I'm not a magician, you know.
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There is no way I can make shit disappear.
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How do you feel about the whole
Manny Ramirez situation, Harry?
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Hey, Seth, don't you think Manny Ramirez
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looks like the monster from Predator?
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[audience laughing]
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And of course, then I started thinking,
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it's like, "Wow,
what are the repercussions?"
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Somebody has to be held
accountable for this, so...
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And that's really the mode I went into,
crisis management mode.
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And all hell broke loose after that.
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Major League Baseball
confirming the existence
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of a federal investigation
involving Manny Ramirez.
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The DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency,
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looking at a Miami doctor and his son
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as the source for the banned
performance-enhancing drug
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that led to Ramirez's 50-game suspension.
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[Bosch] Went down to the bar,
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told the bartender to turn on ESPN
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and watched the whole shitshow
from there.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration
is investigating
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Miami physician Pedro Bosch
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to see if he gave improper
or illegal prescriptions
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to Ramirez and others.
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[reporter 1] His son,
45-year-old Anthony Bosch,
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is believed to have worked as a contact
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between his father and Ramirez.
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The younger Bosch is also well known
in Latin American baseball circles.
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-[reporter 2] Manny Ramirez--
-[reporter 3] Manny Ramirez--
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The King of Pop is dead.
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Michael Jackson, two months shy
of his 51st birthday,
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died today in Los Angeles.
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[Bosch] While this was going on,
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unfortunately, the news of
Michael Jackson's death was reported.
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That same day, the news of
Farrah Fawcett's death was reported.
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My story took a back page,
way, way in the back page.
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Which is where I wanted to be.
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And my lawyer, you know, says,
"Listen to me.
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I think we could salvage all this.
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And actually,
you could benefit from this."
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And so he told me, "Lay low
and after you lay low,
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uh, your business is gonna explode
because you were Manny's guy."
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Sure enough, for a couple of months,
I laid low,
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I came back and business boomed.
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Before this happened, we were seeing
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maybe five, six, seven
new patients a week.
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Now, all of a sudden, we're seeing
50, 55, 60 new patients a week.
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[Elfrink] There were real estate brokers
and lawyers,
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and attorneys and doctors,
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and you know, just ordinary Miamians,
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who would come to Tony Bosch
to lose weight,
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to get testosterone.
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[Bosch] I had also cop clients.
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Close to 100.
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Of course, I had a police special.
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I could very easily just build my business
on normal wealthy clients
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looking for hormone replacement therapy.
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What I found in athletes
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was that I was able to witness
those results.
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I was able to turn on the TV
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or go to the ball game and I saw my work.
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Just by hearing the crack of the bat,
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I could tell that it was working.
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It was the love of baseball.
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It was almost like, "Hey, Mom,
I made it to the big leagues,
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but in a different way,
you know." [laughs]
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I had nicknames for, especially,
the athlete clients.
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There was this one player,
Jordan Norberto,
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he basically gave me a Yukon in payment.
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And so his name was "Yukon."
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Bartolo Colon. Colon was "DUI,"
'cause he had just gotten a DUI.
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So... [laughs]
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César Puello, his potential
was at another level,
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so I basically coined him "Mijo."
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"My son," 'cause I was gonna be proud
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when he was gonna make it
to the major leagues
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and he was gonna tear it up.
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And then we had the college athletes.
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In the 2005 MLB draft,
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four out of the five guys that got drafted
from the University of Miami,
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that went in the first ten rounds,
were in my books.
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That included Cesar Carrillo
and Ryan Braun.
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Then there was the, you know,
my high school clientele.
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The majority of these guys came to me,
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brought by their parents,
486
00:23:11,181 --> 00:23:14,434
brought by their coaches, their trainers
from local high schools
487
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:16,144
and asked me to please make sure that
488
00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:18,396
they were good to go for the June draft.
489
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,399
[Elfrink] I think he really understood
that psychology of how much
490
00:23:21,483 --> 00:23:23,443
these kids wanted an edge,
491
00:23:23,527 --> 00:23:24,694
wanted any kind of edge,
492
00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:27,405
and not just the kids,
how much their parents wanted that edge.
493
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,783
A lot of them are gonna get drafted
right out of high school,
494
00:23:29,866 --> 00:23:32,702
so there's a huge amount of competition
to get a starting place
495
00:23:32,786 --> 00:23:34,579
at some of these top programs.
496
00:23:34,663 --> 00:23:38,166
When you start administering
to high school, teenage kids
497
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:39,584
that are not adults,
498
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:41,920
now, all of a sudden,
you have absolutely crossed the line.
499
00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:45,841
And that's, uh... Especially, if you
don't have a medical license.
500
00:23:46,633 --> 00:23:49,427
[Elfrink] While Tony Bosch was
running this clinic in Coral Gables,
501
00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:51,596
he met a patient
who would end up becoming
502
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,515
a really key player in everything
that would come.
503
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:55,892
The guy's name was Jorge Velazquez.
504
00:23:56,768 --> 00:23:58,186
[audience cheering]
505
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,193
Ugi was a convicted criminal.
506
00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,445
He knew guys who had drugs around Miami.
507
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:10,490
And he basically became
Tony's black market source.
508
00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:12,951
We were consuming so much product
509
00:24:13,034 --> 00:24:15,787
that, at times, I had to go
to the black market
510
00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:17,372
to purchase these products.
511
00:24:17,455 --> 00:24:19,666
And I would purchase it from Ugi.
512
00:24:19,749 --> 00:24:22,627
[Elfrink] Ugi would get his drugs
from a Brazilian guy
513
00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:24,838
in Kendall, which is a suburb of Miami,
514
00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:28,550
who would basically concoct
testosterone in his garage.
515
00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:30,051
That was a big source for Ugi.
516
00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:31,219
He was a resourceful guy.
517
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,221
He was sort of your typical street dealer
518
00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:35,390
who could get what you needed
if you couldn't find it.
519
00:24:35,473 --> 00:24:38,226
[Bosch] Ugi referred a patient named
Yuri Sucart to me.
520
00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,686
I had no idea who he was.
521
00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:41,855
He put in his occupation,
"personal assistant"
522
00:24:41,938 --> 00:24:43,648
or something like that,
but not to whom.
523
00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:47,444
Every visit, this guy would wear
this Yankee paraphernalia, you know.
524
00:24:47,527 --> 00:24:49,112
He had a World Series ring on.
525
00:24:49,196 --> 00:24:51,198
I couldn't ignore that thing. It was huge.
526
00:24:51,281 --> 00:24:53,158
I tell him, "Do you have anything
to do with the Yankees?"
527
00:24:53,241 --> 00:24:55,076
And he says, "Yeah,
my cousin's in the Yankees,
528
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,953
and I'm his personal trainer.
529
00:24:57,037 --> 00:24:58,914
My cousin wants to meet with you."
530
00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:04,628
And I went to Tampa.
It was a boutique hotel in Tampa.
531
00:25:05,253 --> 00:25:06,630
He knocked on the door
532
00:25:06,713 --> 00:25:09,925
and when the door was opened,
it was A-Rod. It was Alex.
533
00:25:10,008 --> 00:25:12,677
The first words out of his mouth was,
534
00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:15,263
"I want whatever Manny was taking."
535
00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:16,765
He doesn't know who I am.
536
00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,893
He doesn't know why Manny pissed dirty.
537
00:25:19,976 --> 00:25:22,437
But he knew how Manny performed
and played.
538
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,814
[laughing] So I'm thinking
to myself, "Wow."
539
00:25:24,898 --> 00:25:28,193
You know, he couldn't care less
that Manny got caught.
540
00:25:28,276 --> 00:25:30,612
He couldn't care less, you know.
He just wants the juice.
541
00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:35,450
That tells you a lot about
risk versus reward, I think.
542
00:25:36,409 --> 00:25:38,453
[announcer] The World Champion
New York Yankees
543
00:25:38,536 --> 00:25:41,998
against the Kansas City Royals
from Kauffman Stadium.
544
00:25:42,082 --> 00:25:43,625
[Bosch] I had a true believer right away,
545
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:45,877
you know, seven days
after he started my program,
546
00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:48,463
he went ahead and in one game,
he hit three home runs.
547
00:25:53,009 --> 00:25:55,011
I asked him how he felt, he says,
548
00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,222
you know, "I feel like I'm 18 again.
549
00:25:57,305 --> 00:25:59,057
I don't know what fuel you put in there,
550
00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:01,101
but whatever it is,
just keep on putting it."
551
00:26:01,184 --> 00:26:03,395
His down payment was 80 grand.
552
00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:08,441
The ongoing arrangement was
he would pay $12,000 a month, cash.
553
00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:10,819
And his goal was 800 home runs.
554
00:26:10,902 --> 00:26:13,822
He told me he was gonna give me
a bonus once we hit the 800.
555
00:26:13,905 --> 00:26:15,991
And he said, "I'll give you
an extra 150 grand a year
556
00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:17,284
if you give me an exclusivity."
557
00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:19,577
I said, "For 200, you got a deal."
558
00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:23,331
My experience with Alex...
559
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:27,585
I guess I got to summarize it as...
It was weird.
560
00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:29,671
I remember him having an apartment...
561
00:26:29,796 --> 00:26:32,090
The apartment was on the Hudson
in New York.
562
00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:33,883
The whole entire apartment was white.
563
00:26:33,967 --> 00:26:35,844
I'm talking about even the wooden floors.
564
00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:38,263
I thought it was... It was just too white.
565
00:26:38,346 --> 00:26:39,889
All the TVs were on
566
00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:43,476
and it was basically footage
from years ago of himself,
567
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,604
hitting a home run
or hitting the winning RBI and...
568
00:26:46,688 --> 00:26:48,815
He used it as motivation and inspiration.
569
00:26:49,524 --> 00:26:51,401
I would travel and meet him
570
00:26:51,484 --> 00:26:53,486
and do all these treatments on site.
571
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:56,948
You know, I had injected people
in the most weirdest places.
572
00:26:57,032 --> 00:27:00,869
One ball player, he missed his injection
and I go, "Where are you?"
573
00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:03,455
He says, "I'm at a gas station
up North Federal Highway."
574
00:27:03,538 --> 00:27:05,707
We did it right there in the gas station.
575
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,542
One player, I said, "Well, where are you?"
576
00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:09,085
He says, "Well, I'm at Marlins Stadium."
577
00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:11,379
So, it was hilarious.
I pulled into Marlins Stadium.
578
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:13,089
It was, like, three hours before game time
579
00:27:13,173 --> 00:27:15,717
and here he comes in his flip-flops,
wearing his full uniform.
580
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,511
Literally, we pulled into
the Pollo Tropical parking lot.
581
00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:20,180
He got out, went into the restroom first.
582
00:27:20,263 --> 00:27:21,765
I got out and went to the restroom.
583
00:27:21,848 --> 00:27:23,558
I injected him there.
584
00:27:23,641 --> 00:27:25,477
The one that tops it all off
585
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,104
was the one with Alex in the bathroom
at LIV nightclub.
586
00:27:28,396 --> 00:27:29,689
Dale.
587
00:27:30,106 --> 00:27:31,941
[upbeat music playing]
588
00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:37,655
[Bosch] I would do blood tests
589
00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:39,824
to see what deficiencies he may have
590
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:42,202
and see if we can correct
those deficiencies.
591
00:27:42,911 --> 00:27:46,164
He basically sat on the toilet,
you know, on the toilet,
592
00:27:46,247 --> 00:27:48,291
and then I had to get on my knee
593
00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:50,794
and actually draw the blood.
594
00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:53,171
[music continues]
595
00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:55,757
Alex had gotten two tables
596
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,634
and I was at one of the tables with Ugi.
597
00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:00,387
Everybody was bouncing up and down...
598
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,102
When I realized I lost the vial of blood.
599
00:28:08,311 --> 00:28:09,646
I said, "Alex, we got a problem."
600
00:28:09,729 --> 00:28:11,940
He says, "What's the problem now?"
I said, "I lost the vial."
601
00:28:12,023 --> 00:28:13,900
He goes, "You gotta be
fucking kidding me."
602
00:28:13,983 --> 00:28:16,694
So we're all on the fucking ground
looking for a vial of blood
603
00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:18,613
while everybody's jumping
up and down around us.
604
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:22,117
[all yelling]
605
00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:35,755
What's up, guys?
I'm Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
606
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:37,090
from Jersey Shore. That's right.
607
00:28:37,173 --> 00:28:40,552
And, um, everybody knows
how much I love to tan.
608
00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:42,762
This is Boca Tanning right here,
first class facility.
609
00:28:42,846 --> 00:28:45,432
This is pretty much the best
tanning salon in the nation.
610
00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:47,809
And that's the situation, so...
611
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:50,228
[Bosch] Ugi was a partner in Boca Tanning.
612
00:28:50,311 --> 00:28:51,688
Ugi comes to me and says,
613
00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:53,565
"Listen, I want you to meet these guys.
614
00:28:53,648 --> 00:28:56,901
They have a bunch of tanning salons
called Boca Tanning.
615
00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:00,488
We could create like a spa feel to this
616
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:02,949
and there's room in all these
tanning salons,
617
00:29:03,032 --> 00:29:06,953
and so they wanna talk to you about
creating maybe a pilot program."
618
00:29:07,036 --> 00:29:10,707
He sort of wants to find a way
to maybe turn this into a franchise,
619
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:12,959
have a bigger idea for his business.
620
00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:16,504
And that's when he connects
with the Boca Tanning salon
621
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,465
which is run by the Carbone brothers.
622
00:29:19,215 --> 00:29:20,633
[audience cheering]
623
00:29:24,971 --> 00:29:26,514
[Bosch] And I met with Pete Carbone
624
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:29,517
at his Boca Tanning facility
in South Miami for the first time,
625
00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,811
and then we discussed
how we can do business.
626
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:35,523
[Elfrink] Pete and Anthony Carbone
are almost right out of Goodfellas,
627
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,818
and New York tough guys,
who found their way down to Florida
628
00:29:38,902 --> 00:29:41,780
and basically washed
into the tanning salon business
629
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:45,033
after their police academy dreams
did not pan out.
630
00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:48,912
[Bosch] We opened up a pilot office
at Boca Tanning.
631
00:29:49,037 --> 00:29:51,331
The pilot program was called Boca Body.
632
00:29:51,414 --> 00:29:54,834
That's where I met Porter Fischer
for the first time also.
633
00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:56,836
My vice happens to be tanning
634
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,379
and that's something I enjoy doing.
635
00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:00,882
[audience cheering]
636
00:30:04,010 --> 00:30:06,179
The Vitamin D, the warmth on your body...
637
00:30:06,262 --> 00:30:08,473
No matter how I feel,
when I walk into a tanning salon,
638
00:30:08,556 --> 00:30:11,392
if I spend some time in front of the bulb,
I always feel better.
639
00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:14,437
And you try different lotions
and your skin feels soft and dark.
640
00:30:14,521 --> 00:30:17,607
Everything about it is built
to make you feel better about yourself.
641
00:30:17,690 --> 00:30:18,983
And you do.
642
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,653
My old stomping grounds,
which was South Miami,
643
00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:24,113
Sunset Place, right across the street
from the University of Miami,
644
00:30:24,197 --> 00:30:27,075
there was a tanning salon
called Boca Tanning Club opening up.
645
00:30:27,158 --> 00:30:28,326
And I went by and talked to the owners
646
00:30:28,409 --> 00:30:29,869
and they seemed like very, very nice guys.
647
00:30:29,994 --> 00:30:31,704
So I became a regular customer.
648
00:30:31,788 --> 00:30:33,081
When people would introduce me,
649
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:34,707
they'd say, "Oh, Porter,
he's a regular customer."
650
00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:37,168
I would jump in and say,
"Yes, I'm a professional tanner."
651
00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:40,463
I knew the bulbs, I knew the lotions,
I knew the operations,
652
00:30:40,547 --> 00:30:42,340
and when people come in,
I almost became like
653
00:30:42,423 --> 00:30:43,967
Norm at the end of the bar.
654
00:30:44,050 --> 00:30:45,385
You know, "Porter!"
655
00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:47,720
[Elfrink] Florida is the Sunshine State
656
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:49,305
and yet, despite that fact,
657
00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:51,558
Florida has more tanning salons per capita
658
00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:53,601
than anywhere else in the United States.
659
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:55,144
[Fischer] Especially down here in Miami,
660
00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:56,813
everyone's thing is, "Now, now, now, now."
661
00:30:56,896 --> 00:31:00,233
Why do you go tan?
'Cause I can get it now.
662
00:31:00,316 --> 00:31:02,777
I want it now. I want the money now.
I want the fame now.
663
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:03,945
When they first opened,
664
00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:07,574
they were the only 24/7 tanning salon
in the country.
665
00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:09,534
When you have a 24/7 business,
666
00:31:09,617 --> 00:31:12,161
you know that old saying, "Nothing good
happens after three o'clock?"
667
00:31:12,787 --> 00:31:16,249
Well, lo and behold,
that comes to end up being true.
668
00:31:16,332 --> 00:31:18,585
There was another tanning salon company
669
00:31:18,668 --> 00:31:20,044
that had bought up
670
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:23,256
a couple of Boca Tanning Clubs
outside the city.
671
00:31:23,339 --> 00:31:26,259
And Pete had told me, he was like,
"Yeah, if these people come down here,
672
00:31:26,342 --> 00:31:28,261
that's the kind of stuff
that gets you killed."
673
00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:30,388
And I was like, "I know,
that'll probably piss you off."
674
00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:32,432
He's like, "No, no, you have no idea.
675
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,018
When you're fucking with a man's family,
and their food,
676
00:31:35,101 --> 00:31:36,102
and their business,
677
00:31:36,185 --> 00:31:38,771
that shit gets you killed,
and gets you killed quick."
678
00:31:38,855 --> 00:31:42,066
Pete did come across as kind of
a Godfather type.
679
00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:44,068
That was kind of... So I kept
a little bit of distance.
680
00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:46,487
And I personally didn't wanna piss him off
because I enjoyed going there.
681
00:31:46,571 --> 00:31:47,614
I didn't wanna get banned.
682
00:31:47,697 --> 00:31:49,532
I enjoyed going to the tanning salon,
683
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:52,452
so why would I wanna do something
to fuck it up?
684
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:55,204
There's a lot of beautiful people
that came into the salons.
685
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:57,123
So it was a nice place to hang out.
686
00:31:57,206 --> 00:31:58,583
It's nice to be part of it
687
00:31:58,666 --> 00:31:59,959
and not looking from the outside in.
688
00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:02,462
I basically got chubby and out of weight.
689
00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:04,422
I had gotten all the way up to almost 240.
690
00:32:04,505 --> 00:32:05,840
But no matter how much I would try,
691
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:07,258
I would never be younger,
692
00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:09,928
and I didn't know if I could ever
get back to that level.
693
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:12,221
Anthony was looking for a way
to expand on the business.
694
00:32:12,305 --> 00:32:14,140
So they started doing reconstruction
695
00:32:14,223 --> 00:32:15,642
to separate part of the building
696
00:32:15,725 --> 00:32:17,936
into a wellness anti-aging clinic.
697
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:20,897
Boca Body was partnered off
with Jorge Velazquez,
698
00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:23,316
who Pete had known.
He went by the name Ugi.
699
00:32:23,399 --> 00:32:24,525
I said, "What goes on in there?"
700
00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:26,736
And he said, "Oh, we have a side business.
We're gonna do anti-aging.
701
00:32:26,819 --> 00:32:27,987
Are you on a protocol?"
702
00:32:28,071 --> 00:32:29,697
And he goes, "No, I'll introduce you
to the doctor."
703
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,616
That's where I first met Tony Bosch.
704
00:32:32,450 --> 00:32:33,993
I walked in the door to Boca Body
705
00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:36,245
and there's Tony sitting behind a desk.
706
00:32:36,329 --> 00:32:39,332
He had a white lab coat
that said "Dr. Tony Bosch."
707
00:32:39,415 --> 00:32:42,585
He had a stethoscope around his neck.
708
00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,587
Yeah, I assumed he was a doctor.
709
00:32:44,671 --> 00:32:46,798
I introduced myself
and we started talking,
710
00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:48,591
and handed him the blood work.
711
00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:51,302
Tony looked at it for a couple of minutes
and goes, "Yeah, we can work with this.
712
00:32:51,386 --> 00:32:53,554
Where are you from?
Where'd you go to school?"
713
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:57,392
And I said, "I went to Columbus."
And he said, "Oh, so did I."
714
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:00,728
And so he goes, "You know what?
I'm gonna give you the Columbus discount."
715
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:03,648
The next question is, he goes,
"Do you know who I am?"
716
00:33:03,731 --> 00:33:05,191
And I'm like, "No."
717
00:33:05,274 --> 00:33:06,567
And he goes, "Baseball?"
718
00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:08,152
I went, "No, sorry."
719
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:11,280
On the heels of the line of questioning,
I thought he meant,
720
00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:14,158
"Do you know who I am?
I played baseball for Columbus."
721
00:33:14,242 --> 00:33:15,535
[clicks tongue]
722
00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:16,869
Where do I start with Porter Fischer?
723
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:18,538
I don't know where to start with that guy.
724
00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:20,039
Um...
725
00:33:21,332 --> 00:33:22,417
All right.
726
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:25,837
He came across almost like
an abandoned child.
727
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,339
A very needy person.
A person that wanted attention.
728
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:32,385
A person that required attention
and required approval.
729
00:33:32,885 --> 00:33:34,929
[Fischer] At the time,
my fitness goal was to lose weight.
730
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,222
He goes, "Here, try this."
731
00:33:36,305 --> 00:33:38,099
He gave me one pill.
732
00:33:38,182 --> 00:33:40,476
"Try this." Went over to the gym,
about a half an hour,
733
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,395
I felt great, felt fantastic.
734
00:33:42,478 --> 00:33:44,480
And I came back and I said,
"What was that?"
735
00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,066
And he goes, "Oh, that's what
Lance Armstrong takes."
736
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,736
I was like, "Oh. Oh, okay."
737
00:33:49,819 --> 00:33:51,237
And so I walked away thinking to myself,
738
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,573
"Hey, I'm taking
what Lance Armstrong is taking.
739
00:33:53,656 --> 00:33:56,409
Poor guy is getting ragged on in the media
for taking steroids.
740
00:33:56,492 --> 00:33:58,244
He's taking something
that he's getting from a doctor.
741
00:33:58,327 --> 00:33:59,996
Oh, yay, Lance."
742
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:01,247
And it worked.
743
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:04,083
I mean, after a time,
744
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:06,502
I went from 238 down to 186.
745
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:10,548
After that, there was no more Boca Body.
746
00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:14,052
The personalities kind of clashed.
747
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:16,387
Not paying rent,
skirting around the rules,
748
00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:18,473
kind of bouncing from place to place.
749
00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:21,142
That kind of arrangement
wasn't gonna work with the Carbones
750
00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:23,436
who do the exact same sort of thing.
751
00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:26,397
I told Ugi and I told Pete
it wasn't working out for me.
752
00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:29,525
And I went ahead and dissolved
my partnership
753
00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:30,985
with them and I moved on.
754
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,820
[Elfrink] You can't hustle a hustler.
755
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:34,697
That's exactly what was going on
in this case.
756
00:34:34,781 --> 00:34:37,575
[Bosch] I opened up an office
right next to the University of Miami.
757
00:34:37,658 --> 00:34:39,494
I called it Biogenesis.
758
00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:41,829
[Fischer] Once Boca Body
had gotten dissolved,
759
00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:43,331
I still continued to tan
760
00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:45,833
but I missed getting the results.
761
00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:49,087
So I went on a little hunting spree
to go and find out where Tony was.
762
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:51,631
And finally tracked him down
to his new location,
763
00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:53,633
which was across
from the University of Miami,
764
00:34:53,716 --> 00:34:56,052
right next door to the UM baseball park,
765
00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:58,096
which is named after Alex Rodriguez.
766
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,808
[Bosch] Porter showed up at Biogenesis.
767
00:35:01,891 --> 00:35:03,017
[Fischer] And he goes, "Why are you here?"
768
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:04,894
I said, "I just wanna continue
what we were doing before."
769
00:35:04,977 --> 00:35:06,813
I said, "Can I still get
the Columbus discount?"
770
00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:09,232
He was like, "Sure.
Tell me what you want."
771
00:35:09,315 --> 00:35:11,901
And just off the top of my head, I said,
772
00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:14,070
"I'd like to look like
Sylvester Stallone."
773
00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:15,863
He goes, "Yeah, we can make that happen."
774
00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,115
I was like, "Really?"
775
00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:19,492
He's like, "Yeah, we can make that happen.
We'll just change the protocol."
776
00:35:19,575 --> 00:35:22,161
[Bosch] He signed up
and he became a client of Biogenesis
777
00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:24,080
under my treatment, under my care.
778
00:35:24,163 --> 00:35:28,501
At this time, Biogenesis had
close to 300 athletes.
779
00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:32,421
I was not hands-on
with every single athlete, if you will.
780
00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:34,924
I wasn't there, you know, making sure
781
00:35:35,007 --> 00:35:37,051
that the protocol
was being done correctly.
782
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:41,305
I wasn't there to make sure
that there was compliance.
783
00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:42,932
Obviously, it didn't help
784
00:35:43,015 --> 00:35:45,685
with the lifestyle that I had
going on at that time.
785
00:35:45,768 --> 00:35:47,395
[upbeat music playing]
786
00:35:48,062 --> 00:35:49,522
We were doing extremely well.
787
00:35:49,605 --> 00:35:52,441
And I was too busy going to parties,
788
00:35:52,525 --> 00:35:54,527
and I didn't think I was gonna
get caught, foolishly.
789
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,654
And the fact that, you know,
living in Miami,
790
00:35:56,737 --> 00:36:00,408
it wasn't the same risk that I was taking
like if I lived in North Dakota, you know.
791
00:36:00,491 --> 00:36:03,744
Miami still has that mentality of the '80s
792
00:36:03,828 --> 00:36:06,122
and the cocaine cowboys
and the Wild Wild West.
793
00:36:06,205 --> 00:36:07,498
I figured if I'd made it this far,
794
00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:09,584
I can make it the rest of the way
without getting caught.
795
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:14,255
I think the turning point
796
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,383
was when Melky Cabrera,
797
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,470
uh, you know, pissed positive.
798
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:23,431
[reporter] Cabrera flunked a drug test.
799
00:36:23,556 --> 00:36:26,184
He was busted for using
performance-enhancing drugs
800
00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:28,769
to enhance his salary drive.
801
00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:30,980
[Bosch] I knew it was the end.
I ain't no dummy.
802
00:36:31,063 --> 00:36:33,274
Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colón...
803
00:36:33,357 --> 00:36:35,026
After Melky Cabrera's positive test,
804
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:38,070
athletics pitcher Bartolo Colón
also got docked 50 games,
805
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:40,114
also for testosterone.
806
00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:43,159
[Bosch] All these guys started pissing
dirty, I decided, you know,
807
00:36:43,242 --> 00:36:44,619
that was it for the athletes.
808
00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:47,330
I wanna give this whole thing a rest.
809
00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,332
I started releasing players.
810
00:36:49,415 --> 00:36:51,167
I stopped accepting new patients,
811
00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:54,837
so we were just providing
the monthly service to the old patients.
812
00:36:54,921 --> 00:36:56,547
And so, I didn't have the same income,
813
00:36:56,631 --> 00:36:59,550
but I had the same staff,
I had the same expenses.
814
00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:01,594
So I was in total chaos at this time.
815
00:37:02,762 --> 00:37:04,096
[Fischer] I started to notice...
816
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:06,766
There was not one stitch of advertising
in the entire building.
817
00:37:06,849 --> 00:37:08,601
And I thought that, "Hey, I wanted
to contribute back
818
00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:10,061
to an industry that I loved."
819
00:37:10,144 --> 00:37:12,355
"Hey, I could really help this guy
blow this business up."
820
00:37:12,438 --> 00:37:15,691
"Hey, I'm a walking billboard
for how well this guy does his job."
821
00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:18,694
Tony, on some level,
knows this is the last thing he could do.
822
00:37:18,778 --> 00:37:20,780
He's essentially an illegal drug dealer,
you know.
823
00:37:20,863 --> 00:37:23,783
It'd be like going to
your neighborhood coke dealer
824
00:37:23,866 --> 00:37:26,702
in Miami, and telling him
what a great job he's doing,
825
00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,663
and how much you wanna advertise
his services.
826
00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:30,581
He can't do that.
He knows he can't do that.
827
00:37:30,665 --> 00:37:32,083
But Porter doesn't get that.
828
00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:35,378
[Bosch] Porter started showing up
more in my office.
829
00:37:35,461 --> 00:37:37,296
He was basically loitering in my lobby
830
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:38,923
and I really didn't mind at that time
831
00:37:39,006 --> 00:37:41,092
because anybody who came in,
832
00:37:41,175 --> 00:37:44,303
you know, he sat down and he basically
told them how great we were.
833
00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:46,305
I had a guy working for me
834
00:37:46,389 --> 00:37:49,517
who was my Chief Financial Officer,
Ricky Martinez.
835
00:37:53,479 --> 00:37:54,689
[Fischer] And I was like, "Hey, Ricky,
836
00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:56,399
you know, why don't you let me
do the marketing for you guys?
837
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:57,525
Let me help you guys out,
838
00:37:57,608 --> 00:38:00,820
because I've been doing
corporate marketing for a long time."
839
00:38:00,903 --> 00:38:02,405
Every time I went in there,
every month, I would ask,
840
00:38:02,488 --> 00:38:05,283
"Let me do the marketing for you,"
and I got shunned away.
841
00:38:05,366 --> 00:38:07,326
"If it's an issue, I'll pay for it.
842
00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,287
Let me do the pamphlets
and the business cards
843
00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:10,454
and let me show you what I can do."
844
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:11,914
"No, you don't have to do that."
845
00:38:11,998 --> 00:38:14,292
I was like, "No, I want to.
I have a little bit of money now."
846
00:38:14,917 --> 00:38:16,794
And he goes, "Oh, you have
a little bit of money?"
847
00:38:16,877 --> 00:38:19,672
[Elfrink] In between hanging out
at the tanning salon,
848
00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:22,174
he started riding his bicycle
around the neighborhood.
849
00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:23,759
[Fischer] When I was out there
on the bike,
850
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:25,261
uh, I got hit by a car.
851
00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:26,637
[tires screeching]
852
00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:28,347
[crashing]
853
00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:32,143
Which ended up being quite the godsend
to Porter Fischer
854
00:38:32,226 --> 00:38:34,812
because the Jaguar owner paid out
855
00:38:34,895 --> 00:38:37,565
a hefty insurance settlement.
856
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:38,899
[Fischer] That night...
857
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:41,444
Boom! Tony had never talked to me
about this before.
858
00:38:41,527 --> 00:38:43,529
He called me up and goes,
"Hey, I talked to Ricky,
859
00:38:43,612 --> 00:38:46,115
and Ricky says that
you came into a little bit of money."
860
00:38:46,198 --> 00:38:48,701
[Bosch] He says, "I believe in you,
I believe in the product,
861
00:38:48,784 --> 00:38:51,704
and you know, I wanna see
how I can get into the business."
862
00:38:51,787 --> 00:38:54,665
[Fischer] "I have a different suggestion.
Why don't you invest in the business?"
863
00:38:54,749 --> 00:38:56,834
And I was like, "Oh!"
864
00:38:58,627 --> 00:39:00,296
"You could be my marketing director
865
00:39:00,379 --> 00:39:02,506
and I'll pay you 20% return.
866
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:06,052
Give me $4,000
and I'll give you back $4,800.
867
00:39:06,135 --> 00:39:09,555
I'll pay you 1,200 bucks every week,
and in a month you'll be paid back."
868
00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:11,557
I was like, "Okay."
869
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,184
[Elfrink] If you can't understand the deal
870
00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:16,145
that Porter and Tony Bosch
made for $4,000,
871
00:39:16,228 --> 00:39:19,065
it's probably because the deal
doesn't make any sense.
872
00:39:19,148 --> 00:39:20,274
There's a lot of dispute now
873
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:23,069
over whether this $4,000 was an investment
in the company,
874
00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:24,612
whether it was a loan.
875
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:28,032
I think basically what you had here
was a guy in Tony Bosch
876
00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:31,243
whose life was already
sort of spiraling out of control,
877
00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:32,870
who was willing to do anything
to get money.
878
00:39:32,953 --> 00:39:34,580
I think he probably told Porter
879
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:37,750
anything he needed to tell him
to get this money out of his pocket.
880
00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:40,503
[Fischer] Ricky asked me, he goes,
"You sure you wanna do this?"
881
00:39:40,586 --> 00:39:42,588
I said, "Ricky, I've been
asking you guys every month,
882
00:39:42,671 --> 00:39:43,923
to let me do the marketing." He was like,
883
00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:46,425
"I just wanna make sure.
You sure you wanna do this?"
884
00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:49,553
And, so I wrote a check
to Biogenesis for $4,000.
885
00:39:49,637 --> 00:39:53,307
[Bosch] Porter Fischer
makes this investment, right?
886
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:56,102
And so, he thinks he's part
of this Biogenesis team.
887
00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:59,188
By no means is he part
of the Biogenesis team.
888
00:39:59,271 --> 00:40:01,941
Okay, you know, let's find out,
what can I do here?
889
00:40:02,024 --> 00:40:05,027
I set up a whole Gmail account
for everybody there.
890
00:40:05,111 --> 00:40:06,821
Him, Ricky, his dad.
891
00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:11,158
I was doing things to make this business
a real business.
892
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:12,910
I said, "Ricky, let's do something
on a website.
893
00:40:12,993 --> 00:40:14,537
I'm gonna build your website for you.
894
00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:17,373
Just designate what the packages are,
let's figure out what our cost is.
895
00:40:17,456 --> 00:40:19,417
What do we charge for testosterone?"
896
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:23,546
And he goes, "Well, if we get
the prescription, it costs 100 bucks.
897
00:40:23,629 --> 00:40:26,298
If we get it from Dr. Pedro."
898
00:40:26,715 --> 00:40:28,217
And I was like,
"Well, okay, where else..."
899
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:29,927
"Unless we get it from Ugi."
900
00:40:30,010 --> 00:40:31,971
I'm like, "Why would you
get it from Ugi?"
901
00:40:32,054 --> 00:40:34,473
I don't know how it works,
I'm sitting there going,
902
00:40:34,557 --> 00:40:36,642
"Does Ugi know another doctor?"
903
00:40:36,725 --> 00:40:40,229
[scoffs] "Porter, Ugi's nothing more
than a glorified steroid dealer."
904
00:40:41,063 --> 00:40:44,733
And I was like, "Okay, all right."
905
00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:46,902
Now I'm starting to go, "Okay.
906
00:40:46,986 --> 00:40:49,697
Now things are starting
to fall in place a little bit."
907
00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:52,658
I'm going, "Okay, that's why
there's no advertising here."
908
00:40:52,741 --> 00:40:55,536
When I realized how much time
this guy required,
909
00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:59,832
I started ignoring his requests
for meetings and appointments.
910
00:40:59,915 --> 00:41:04,003
And I think that irritated him
and that frustrated him.
911
00:41:04,086 --> 00:41:06,255
[Fischer] A week later,
"Hey, Ricky, where's Tony?"
912
00:41:06,338 --> 00:41:07,465
"Oh, he's not here."
913
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:10,259
"I know, but I'm supposed
to get paid like 1,200 bucks."
914
00:41:10,342 --> 00:41:12,511
"Well, what do you want me to tell you,
Porter? He's not here."
915
00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:14,805
I'm like, "And?"
916
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:17,975
"Well, Porter, I asked you if you were
sure you wanted to do this."
917
00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:21,479
So I finally went to Tony,
and he goes, "Oh, I'm so sorry.
918
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:23,522
I was out of town.
Taking care of business.
919
00:41:23,606 --> 00:41:25,274
Hey, I know I promised you 1,200 bucks.
920
00:41:25,357 --> 00:41:27,568
[nervously] I wanna renegotiate this.
921
00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,528
No, don't freak out, Porter.
922
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:31,322
Let me give you $600 now."
923
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:33,991
[Bosch] I go into the nurses' room
and I see him.
924
00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:36,869
I go into my storage room and I see him.
925
00:41:36,952 --> 00:41:38,913
I go to the financial office
and I see him.
926
00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:40,539
I see him in the parking lot
when I come in.
927
00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:41,957
I see him in the parking lot when I leave.
928
00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:44,543
I see him everywhere, you know.
It was borderline stalking.
929
00:41:44,627 --> 00:41:47,004
The second week rolls around,
I asked Ricky for the money,
930
00:41:47,087 --> 00:41:49,006
he's like, "I don't have it now,
come back tomorrow."
931
00:41:49,131 --> 00:41:51,091
I said, "Why, what's the issue?"
932
00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:52,760
He goes, "We have more people
coming in tomorrow.
933
00:41:52,843 --> 00:41:54,762
I need more cash customers."
934
00:41:54,845 --> 00:41:57,139
And I'm like, "Ricky,
what's going on here?"
935
00:41:57,223 --> 00:41:59,850
"Porter, you don't understand,
we're three months behind on rent."
936
00:42:01,268 --> 00:42:02,811
I had a very expensive lifestyle.
937
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:07,441
I was consuming, I don't know,
$40,000 a month in expenses.
938
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:08,984
There was the IRS,
there was the child support,
939
00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:10,402
it was this, it was the other thing.
940
00:42:10,486 --> 00:42:11,946
I had two rents going on.
941
00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:14,281
You know, one was $7,000
the other one was $5,000.
942
00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:15,533
I kept that up.
943
00:42:15,616 --> 00:42:18,285
For every dollar I had, I spent two.
944
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:22,122
And of course, my cocaine bill
was $5,000, $6,000 a month.
945
00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:25,834
You're still talking about 60k a month.
946
00:42:25,918 --> 00:42:28,128
How could you possibly do that much drugs?
947
00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:31,507
I even walked up to Rick, I said,
"Look, if I don't get my money,
948
00:42:31,590 --> 00:42:34,218
I'll blow this up.
I'll blow this whole thing up.
949
00:42:34,301 --> 00:42:35,553
And you're not gonna stand in my way,
950
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:38,180
you guys will just
be collateral damage to me.
951
00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:40,808
You're not gonna steal $4,000 from me.
I want my money."
952
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:45,062
[Bosch] Porter became very irritable
and frustrating and angry
953
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:50,526
and he would leave me these crazy
voicemail messages and E-mails.
954
00:42:50,609 --> 00:42:52,987
Insulting, degrading, I mean it was...
955
00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:55,573
It got to the point where it was scary.
956
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,449
[Fischer] Tony's in his office
and I come in and I say,
957
00:42:57,533 --> 00:43:00,077
"Hey, Tony, how's it going?" He's like,
"Oh, good, what can I do for you?"
958
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,079
I'm like, "I want my money."
959
00:43:02,162 --> 00:43:03,622
He said, "Well, I don't have it."
960
00:43:03,706 --> 00:43:07,751
I'm like, "Tony, this isn't a game.
I want my money back.
961
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,461
You're way behind. I want my money."
962
00:43:09,545 --> 00:43:12,381
He's like, "I'm Dr. Tony Bosch!
What are you gonna do about it?"
963
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,384
Well, I'm sure as shit not gonna get
fucked by you.
964
00:43:15,467 --> 00:43:16,552
I had two choices right there.
965
00:43:16,635 --> 00:43:19,179
Either smash this guy down
to the ground right there,
966
00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:21,932
or turn around and find out what's up
and destroy his business.
967
00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:23,517
[Bosch] Then that's when
I told Ricky, "Listen,
968
00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:25,853
don't pay him another cent more
until we clear this shit up.
969
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,771
This guy is basically trouble."
970
00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:30,608
[Elfrink] Porter Fischer
is a really earnest guy
971
00:43:30,691 --> 00:43:33,152
who really wears his emotions
on his sleeve.
972
00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:36,363
And he absolutely exploded.
973
00:43:37,698 --> 00:43:41,952
And it's a lasting, burning, fiery rage
974
00:43:42,036 --> 00:43:46,123
that happens when Porter feels he's been
screwed over by somebody.
975
00:43:46,206 --> 00:43:48,334
[Fischer] In the meantime,
I can come and go as I want.
976
00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:50,794
So I'm in there, I'm looking around,
I'm taking pictures,
977
00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:52,504
and trying to get a feel
of what's going on.
978
00:43:52,588 --> 00:43:53,797
[camera shutter clicking]
979
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:57,176
Then I'm sitting at the computer
980
00:43:57,259 --> 00:43:59,511
and I turn around and I look behind me
at these boxes.
981
00:44:00,304 --> 00:44:01,597
Then it hit me.
982
00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:04,933
Tony came in one day, just in a bad mood.
983
00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:07,019
He goes, "I don't need any of you guys.
I don't need any of you.
984
00:44:07,102 --> 00:44:09,980
All I need is this."
And turns around and picks up a folder.
985
00:44:10,064 --> 00:44:12,900
"All I need is this. I could put this
in the back of my car and do this job.
986
00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:14,401
This is all I need."
987
00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:17,279
And slapped down the folder
and walked off.
988
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:24,995
I was like, "Oh, so he needs this?
What are in these files?"
989
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:27,915
So I started looking
and they were all basically
990
00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:29,833
folders with people's names on it.
991
00:44:29,917 --> 00:44:31,460
And you open it up.
992
00:44:31,543 --> 00:44:33,379
I don't wanna even wanna call them
"patient files,"
993
00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:37,466
because it was loose-leaf
pieces of paper, notes, Post-its.
994
00:44:37,549 --> 00:44:41,178
So I pull it out and saw what
the protocol Jon Secada was on.
995
00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:43,055
[singing] I...
996
00:44:43,138 --> 00:44:46,433
I don't wanna say it...
997
00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:49,645
[Fischer] Looking around,
there's four books sitting on his desk.
998
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:52,147
I open it up and I flip to one page.
999
00:44:52,231 --> 00:44:55,192
It had baseball players
starting off with Alex.
1000
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,654
Melky Cabrera's name, Ryan Braun's name.
1001
00:44:58,737 --> 00:44:59,947
That's a surprise.
1002
00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:01,448
Baseball names, one after another,
1003
00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,742
with right there next to it,
it said, "Pro."
1004
00:45:03,826 --> 00:45:06,745
Then a bunch of other names,
it said, "COL."
1005
00:45:07,204 --> 00:45:09,915
And then a bunch of names,
it said, "H.S."
1006
00:45:09,998 --> 00:45:12,042
Hundreds, thousands of names.
1007
00:45:12,126 --> 00:45:14,711
A lot of ones don't jump out at you,
but certain ones do.
1008
00:45:14,795 --> 00:45:16,713
When you see the name A. Rodriguez,
1009
00:45:16,797 --> 00:45:18,632
in Miami, that doesn't jump out at you.
1010
00:45:18,715 --> 00:45:21,385
There's probably 1,000
Alex Rodriguezs.
1011
00:45:21,468 --> 00:45:23,846
But now you start to see the name "A-Rod."
1012
00:45:23,929 --> 00:45:25,264
Then it hit me again.
1013
00:45:25,347 --> 00:45:27,683
"Baseball. Do you know who I am?"
1014
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:30,185
You know what, no, I don't know who he is.
1015
00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:31,770
Google.
1016
00:45:31,854 --> 00:45:34,231
"Anthony Bosch. Baseball."
1017
00:45:34,314 --> 00:45:36,233
And the very first thing that popped up
1018
00:45:36,316 --> 00:45:39,653
was a story from 2009 about him
and his father's involvement
1019
00:45:39,736 --> 00:45:41,905
with Manny Ramirez and his suspension.
1020
00:45:41,989 --> 00:45:45,659
Oh, now we see what this is all about.
1021
00:45:46,535 --> 00:45:48,787
"Okay, fine. I don't have
much time here left.
1022
00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:51,331
I got... This is about it. Um...
1023
00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:53,167
I want my money.
1024
00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:54,751
I want my money. What does he need?
1025
00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:56,795
You know what? He's got
too much information in these books.
1026
00:45:56,879 --> 00:45:58,297
You know what? Boom.
1027
00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:02,468
I'm gonna find out what's going on
with this guy. I'm gonna ruin this guy."
1028
00:46:05,929 --> 00:46:09,183
I started realizing that
some of my notebooks
1029
00:46:09,266 --> 00:46:10,267
were actually missing.
1030
00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:13,353
So the first person I went to
was Ricky Martinez.
1031
00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:14,938
And I said, "Listen, Ricky,
1032
00:46:15,022 --> 00:46:17,733
you know, I think somebody's been
taking my things."
1033
00:46:17,816 --> 00:46:19,776
I get a text from Ricky, he says,
1034
00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:22,112
"Hey, Tony wants to talk to you."
I said, "Does he have my money?"
1035
00:46:22,196 --> 00:46:24,948
He's like, "No, no, do you know
where the books are?"
1036
00:46:26,408 --> 00:46:27,701
I'm like, "What books?"
1037
00:46:27,784 --> 00:46:30,829
"Tony had books on his desk
that you may have inadvertently stored.
1038
00:46:30,913 --> 00:46:32,122
And he wants those back."
1039
00:46:32,247 --> 00:46:34,416
I'm like, "Hmm, well see,
I'm so distraught
1040
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:35,834
from not getting my money back,
1041
00:46:35,918 --> 00:46:38,337
that I don't know if I can deal
with anything else right now."
1042
00:46:38,420 --> 00:46:39,963
Tony says, "You better
bring his books back.
1043
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:42,299
You don't know what you're in for..."
So on and so forth. I'm like,
1044
00:46:42,382 --> 00:46:44,676
"Fine." That was basically
my, "Fuck you, buddy."
1045
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,680
He used the excuse that he wanted
his money, immediately,
1046
00:46:48,764 --> 00:46:50,599
with compounded interest.
1047
00:46:50,682 --> 00:46:52,851
And I said, "Under no circumstances
1048
00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:57,397
am I gonna pay X amount of dollars
over and above."
1049
00:46:58,106 --> 00:47:00,317
You know, in hindsight,
maybe I should've paid for it.
1050
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,404
It would've been, you know,
a lot cheaper. [chuckles]
1051
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:07,199
You know, for the price
that I eventually paid.
1052
00:47:07,282 --> 00:47:08,283
[notification chimes]
1053
00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:09,952
[Elfrink] So one afternoon,
I got an E-mail
1054
00:47:10,035 --> 00:47:12,871
that was tagged
with the name David Castillo.
1055
00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:14,873
It was a very short message.
1056
00:47:14,957 --> 00:47:18,627
It basically said he had read a story
that I had written a few years ago
1057
00:47:18,710 --> 00:47:20,295
about this guy named Tony Bosch.
1058
00:47:20,379 --> 00:47:22,631
"I have a little more information
about this doctor.
1059
00:47:22,714 --> 00:47:25,842
I think you might be interested in it.
Give me a call if you'd like."
1060
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:27,844
The very next morning, he called me up.
1061
00:47:27,928 --> 00:47:32,015
As a journalist, I'm always
immediately skeptical of people.
1062
00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:35,018
This guy was very excited,
obviously very nervous.
1063
00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:36,979
By the end of the call,
he had told me his real name,
1064
00:47:37,062 --> 00:47:38,272
so that I could check on who he was.
1065
00:47:38,355 --> 00:47:41,066
We had set up an appointment
to meet at a sports bar
1066
00:47:41,149 --> 00:47:44,736
down in South Miami,
right across the street from Boca Tanning.
1067
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:47,197
Porter said, "I don't care about
Major League Baseball.
1068
00:47:47,281 --> 00:47:51,410
I have one objective
and that is to destroy Tony Bosch.
1069
00:47:51,493 --> 00:47:55,956
He lied to me and I want
to completely blow up this guy's life."
1070
00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:58,458
[Fischer] Tim said,
"Bosch isn't even a doctor."
1071
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:01,962
I said, "I saw his certificate.
University of Belize."
1072
00:48:02,045 --> 00:48:05,674
"He can go practice over there,
but he's not authorized to practice here."
1073
00:48:06,091 --> 00:48:08,093
I was like... [scoffs]
1074
00:48:08,176 --> 00:48:11,054
I came in under best intentions
to try and help this guy,
1075
00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:14,725
and come to find out that the guy
is nothing but a piece of shit conman.
1076
00:48:14,808 --> 00:48:17,019
[Elfrink] He brought one of these
notebooks with him
1077
00:48:17,102 --> 00:48:18,520
and let me take a look.
1078
00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:20,814
[Fischer] And he's like,
"Can I get copies of this?"
1079
00:48:20,897 --> 00:48:22,941
I said, "Oh, yeah,
you can get copies of this."
1080
00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:24,610
I said, "Can you take this guy down?"
1081
00:48:24,693 --> 00:48:26,653
He's like, "If what you're saying is true,
1082
00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:28,155
yeah, this is big."
1083
00:48:29,781 --> 00:48:32,701
[Bosch] Communication basically broke down
with Porter Fischer.
1084
00:48:32,784 --> 00:48:34,202
I was extremely worried
1085
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:37,623
that this information was
gonna get in the wrong hands.
1086
00:48:37,706 --> 00:48:39,166
It was gonna fall into the wrong hands.
1087
00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:42,169
I called Alex and I told Alex
this is what just happened.
1088
00:48:42,252 --> 00:48:43,837
You know, and these people
are trying to extort me.
1089
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,505
And that's when I went to Ugi.
1090
00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:47,132
I said, "Listen, we got a problem."
1091
00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:49,134
Ugi says, "Don't worry,
I'll take care of this."
1092
00:48:49,217 --> 00:48:51,011
So Ugi gets Pete Carbone.
1093
00:48:52,095 --> 00:48:54,806
[Fischer] Now, I'm working with Tim,
and I'm making copies of stuff.
1094
00:48:54,890 --> 00:48:57,017
Pete had called me like 15 times.
1095
00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:58,769
I called. Pete's like, "Where you been?
1096
00:48:58,852 --> 00:49:01,396
I need to ask you something.
No bullshit. No lying.
1097
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,023
I need to ask you something."
I said, "What?"
1098
00:49:03,106 --> 00:49:06,068
And he goes,
"Are you running a story on Bosch?"
1099
00:49:06,610 --> 00:49:08,070
And I'm like,
1100
00:49:08,445 --> 00:49:10,364
"I'm working with New Times."
1101
00:49:10,447 --> 00:49:11,948
"You have no idea
what you're dealing with.
1102
00:49:12,032 --> 00:49:13,367
Now, you're gonna be killed."
1103
00:49:14,201 --> 00:49:15,661
I said, "By Bosch?"
1104
00:49:15,786 --> 00:49:17,371
And he goes, "No! Ugi."
1105
00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:19,498
I go, "Ugi? Why?"
1106
00:49:19,581 --> 00:49:21,500
He goes, "You don't know!
You know how this guy's connected?
1107
00:49:21,583 --> 00:49:23,752
This guy's the real deal.
There are a lot of people involved.
1108
00:49:23,835 --> 00:49:26,755
Don't do this. You got to stop this story.
You don't wanna mess with Ugi.
1109
00:49:26,838 --> 00:49:28,965
This guy's connected. Connected big time.
1110
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:31,176
You're gonna get killed
if this story runs."
1111
00:49:31,259 --> 00:49:32,928
And so basically, I'm thinking to myself,
1112
00:49:33,011 --> 00:49:37,307
"Okay, I just stumbled across
some kind of steroid factory
1113
00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:39,059
or steroid ring,
1114
00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:41,645
and Ugi is the one
that's gonna go down for this."
1115
00:49:41,728 --> 00:49:42,979
Now, I freak out.
1116
00:49:43,063 --> 00:49:44,356
Now, I'm literally freaked out.
1117
00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:46,316
He goes, "I'm coming over."
I said, "Don't come over."
1118
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,651
He goes, "I'm coming over."
1119
00:49:47,734 --> 00:49:51,071
So I got my nine millimeter
and I sat in this car,
1120
00:49:51,154 --> 00:49:53,407
and you know, with a tarp on it,
with a little crack on it,
1121
00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:54,908
waiting for somebody to pull up.
1122
00:49:54,991 --> 00:49:57,119
I never fired a gun at somebody else.
1123
00:49:57,202 --> 00:50:00,372
But I wasn't about to get, you know,
killed at my own house.
1124
00:50:01,581 --> 00:50:05,043
Pete shows up and I let him get out.
I let him go to my front door.
1125
00:50:05,127 --> 00:50:06,336
And I come up behind him, and I was like,
1126
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:07,921
"Pete." He was like, "Oh, there you are.
1127
00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:11,299
Put that gun away, you don't need it.
Let's go inside."
1128
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:12,634
I go inside and I'm like,
1129
00:50:12,718 --> 00:50:14,344
"What the fuck's going on?
Somebody's gonna kill me now?"
1130
00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:16,221
He's like, "What are you doing
with the story?"
1131
00:50:16,304 --> 00:50:18,140
And I told him, I said,
"Look, I want my money."
1132
00:50:18,223 --> 00:50:20,016
And he goes, "No, what do you want?"
1133
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:22,227
And I go, "I just want
my money back, Pete."
1134
00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:24,312
"I'm asking you one more time,
what do you want?"
1135
00:50:24,396 --> 00:50:26,940
I said, "I want that motherfucker to pay.
1136
00:50:27,023 --> 00:50:29,443
I want the motherfucker to pay
for stealing from me."
1137
00:50:29,526 --> 00:50:32,988
He goes, "We'll make that happen.
We'll make sure he gets his.
1138
00:50:33,071 --> 00:50:35,115
But for right now,
all you want is your money."
1139
00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:37,826
I said, "I just want my money."
He goes, "I'll make that happen.
1140
00:50:37,909 --> 00:50:39,327
But I need those books."
1141
00:50:39,995 --> 00:50:41,580
I said, "Okay."
He goes, "I'll take care of it.
1142
00:50:41,663 --> 00:50:42,914
I'll take care of all this whole thing."
1143
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:46,001
So I got the four books
and I turn around and handed them to Pete.
1144
00:50:46,084 --> 00:50:48,962
There was no reason for me
to hang on to these books anymore.
1145
00:50:49,045 --> 00:50:50,464
Tim already has this information.
1146
00:50:50,547 --> 00:50:53,467
I kinda thought that the longer
I had these in my possession,
1147
00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:55,135
the more danger I was in.
1148
00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:58,722
Ugi goes to Alex and says,
"Give me $10,000."
1149
00:50:58,805 --> 00:51:01,475
And Alex goes, "I thought
it was only $4,000, $5,000."
1150
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:04,728
He says, "Give me $10,000.
I... I could work with $10,000."
1151
00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:12,569
[Fischer] The next day,
Pete calls me and says,
1152
00:51:12,652 --> 00:51:14,029
"Hey, can you meet me at the salon?"
1153
00:51:14,112 --> 00:51:15,530
And he hands me $4,000.
1154
00:51:15,614 --> 00:51:17,574
And I'm like,
"Well, I'm only owed $3,600."
1155
00:51:17,657 --> 00:51:20,368
And he goes, "Ah, keep
the $400 for your troubles."
1156
00:51:20,452 --> 00:51:22,329
And I'm like, "Okay.
Well, did you give him the books?"
1157
00:51:22,412 --> 00:51:23,580
He's like, "No."
1158
00:51:23,663 --> 00:51:26,416
"Well, what did you do with them?"
"I gave them to A-Rod's people."
1159
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:28,210
That's when I was like...
1160
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:31,922
A-Rod's involved... And I was like,
"How the fuck do you know A-Rod?
1161
00:51:32,005 --> 00:51:34,049
How is A-Rod involved in this?"
1162
00:51:34,132 --> 00:51:35,717
They took the books
and instead of bringing it to me,
1163
00:51:35,801 --> 00:51:37,552
they took it to A-Rod. They figured,
1164
00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:41,139
A-Rod owns the books now,
'cause he paid the $10,000.
1165
00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:42,682
I said, "All right, great.
1166
00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:45,227
I'll go to A-Rod and he's gonna
have to give me the books."
1167
00:51:45,310 --> 00:51:47,687
And so Alex never gave me the books.
1168
00:51:47,771 --> 00:51:50,440
That's the first time Pete had ever said
the word A-Rod to me.
1169
00:51:50,524 --> 00:51:52,901
That's the first time that I realized that
1170
00:51:52,984 --> 00:51:55,612
A-Rod, or his people,
1171
00:51:55,695 --> 00:52:01,034
were kind of puppeteering Ugi,
or Pete, or Bosch.
1172
00:52:01,117 --> 00:52:04,079
[Bosch] Alex always surrounded himself
1173
00:52:04,162 --> 00:52:07,833
with some shady characters,
as far as his personal life is concerned.
1174
00:52:07,916 --> 00:52:10,710
He grew up in Miami.
It's a Miami thing, I guess.
1175
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:13,797
[Fischer] Pete calls me and says,
"Look, no bullshit. I need to ask you...
1176
00:52:15,549 --> 00:52:17,759
Is this story going on or not?"
1177
00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:19,761
Well, I asked the story to be stopped.
1178
00:52:19,845 --> 00:52:22,556
Porter never asked me to kill the story
or stop it from running.
1179
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:24,599
He knew it was gonna publish
in a few days,
1180
00:52:24,683 --> 00:52:27,477
he knew it was gonna be on the cover
of Miami New Times
1181
00:52:27,561 --> 00:52:30,856
on tens of thousands of papers,
all over the city.
1182
00:52:30,939 --> 00:52:32,232
He knew it was going to be on the Internet
1183
00:52:32,315 --> 00:52:34,192
and he knew everything
that was gonna be in the story.
1184
00:52:34,276 --> 00:52:36,528
I know the story's not dead,
but I'm not gonna tell him that,
1185
00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:38,613
because now, I'm freaked out.
What am I...
1186
00:52:38,697 --> 00:52:41,157
I have no friends in this situation.
1187
00:52:41,241 --> 00:52:43,660
Pete says, "Just stay low.
You did the right thing.
1188
00:52:43,743 --> 00:52:45,328
You're a hero."
1189
00:52:45,453 --> 00:52:47,038
The next day is Tuesday.
1190
00:52:48,206 --> 00:52:49,624
And I get a call from Pete.
1191
00:52:50,375 --> 00:52:52,127
"Well, all the shit's hit the fan.
1192
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:54,796
The story's out."
And I go, "What do they know?"
1193
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,131
And he goes, "Everything."
1194
00:52:57,674 --> 00:53:00,135
[Elfrink] The story just exploded.
1195
00:53:01,469 --> 00:53:04,097
[newscaster] A developing story here
on SportsCenter.
1196
00:53:04,180 --> 00:53:06,433
The names of some
prominent baseball players
1197
00:53:06,516 --> 00:53:10,604
including Alex Rodriguez,
Melky Cabrera and Gio Gonzalez
1198
00:53:10,687 --> 00:53:14,107
were included in records that
the Miami New Times says
1199
00:53:14,190 --> 00:53:17,777
it obtained from an employee who worked
at Biogenesis of America.
1200
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:19,946
We knew the New Times story
was coming out.
1201
00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:22,032
And so, yeah, we closed before.
1202
00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:25,243
Anthony Bosch, the head of the clinic,
which closed last month,
1203
00:53:25,327 --> 00:53:27,037
was connected to Manny Ramirez
1204
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,623
when Ramirez was suspended for 50 games
1205
00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:32,751
for violating baseball's drug policy
in 2009.
1206
00:53:32,834 --> 00:53:36,212
Bosch has never been charged
by local or federal officials.
1207
00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:39,758
Miami New Times, which conducted
a three-month investigation,
1208
00:53:39,841 --> 00:53:44,220
reported that the records show the firm
sold performance-enhancing drugs,
1209
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:46,264
including human growth hormone,
1210
00:53:46,348 --> 00:53:48,892
testosterone and anabolic steroids.
1211
00:53:48,975 --> 00:53:51,311
[reporter] Baseball's latest
doping scandal
1212
00:53:51,394 --> 00:53:54,689
could turn out to be the biggest ever
in sports.
1213
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:56,524
I realized when this was happening that
1214
00:53:56,608 --> 00:53:58,860
"Oh, I really stepped in it this time."
1215
00:53:58,944 --> 00:54:01,321
Oh, shit, you know. Uh...
1216
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,907
Okay, I'm in trouble here.
1217
00:54:05,659 --> 00:54:09,371
I felt like Ray Liotta
at the end of Goodfellas.
1218
00:54:09,996 --> 00:54:12,874
You know, while he is driving around,
1219
00:54:12,958 --> 00:54:16,252
all coked out
and the helicopter was following him.
1220
00:54:16,336 --> 00:54:18,338
So I felt like that,
without the helicopter.
1221
00:54:18,421 --> 00:54:19,673
You know, so... [laughs]
1222
00:54:19,756 --> 00:54:23,009
It's crazy. Now, I understand
when celebrities or whatever
1223
00:54:23,093 --> 00:54:25,971
say they can't leave their house
'cause they get harassed.
1224
00:54:26,054 --> 00:54:29,641
Guys basically started chasing down
all my friends,
1225
00:54:29,724 --> 00:54:32,102
anybody associated with me,
or linked to me.
1226
00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:34,604
[reporter] We tried tracking Bosch
down at a hotel
1227
00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:36,481
in Coconut Grove, Miami.
1228
00:54:36,564 --> 00:54:39,693
No luck approaching a car
connected to Bosch either.
1229
00:54:39,776 --> 00:54:42,278
Do we have any sort of comment at all
from Mr. Bosch?
1230
00:54:42,362 --> 00:54:45,824
So I kept on moving around
from place to place.
1231
00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:50,996
I spent a majority of my time after that
just dodging people.
1232
00:54:51,079 --> 00:54:53,123
I would get calls saying,
"Hey, people were coming by
1233
00:54:53,206 --> 00:54:54,749
looking for you at the salon."
1234
00:54:54,833 --> 00:54:57,752
Pete said, "Oh, you have no idea
what you've done.
1235
00:54:57,836 --> 00:55:00,547
You screwed people over,
you've ruined people's lives.
1236
00:55:00,630 --> 00:55:02,924
How could you do this?
You're a piece of shit."
1237
00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:04,884
And I'm like,
"Whose lives did I ruin?"
1238
00:55:04,968 --> 00:55:07,095
"You know what? I'm done with you.
I'm done with you.
1239
00:55:07,178 --> 00:55:08,722
You know, you're lucky
I don't fuck you up."
1240
00:55:08,805 --> 00:55:10,849
Porter had basically gone
into a complete panic
1241
00:55:10,932 --> 00:55:12,392
after the story ran.
1242
00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:15,729
He was concerned
that his life was in danger
1243
00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:17,313
and he was right.
1244
00:55:17,397 --> 00:55:18,898
[Bosch] It wasn't just the athletes,
1245
00:55:18,982 --> 00:55:20,567
it wasn't just the steroid dealers,
1246
00:55:20,650 --> 00:55:22,902
it was the Carbones
from the tanning salon.
1247
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:25,238
It was the connections
the steroid dealer might have had,
1248
00:55:25,321 --> 00:55:27,615
whether it had been
some kind of organized crime.
1249
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:31,703
It was relatives or fans
of some of these athletes.
1250
00:55:31,786 --> 00:55:33,163
It's not as crazy as it sounds.
1251
00:55:33,246 --> 00:55:35,373
When you start to realize
the scope of the story
1252
00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:39,335
and that there were prominent people
that weren't athletes
1253
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:40,962
from Miami going to this place as well.
1254
00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:43,256
Police officers, judges,
1255
00:55:43,339 --> 00:55:46,051
so I basically shut down
and I was paranoid of everybody.
1256
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:49,554
He's lucky he's not
in a canal anywhere right now.
1257
00:55:49,637 --> 00:55:51,556
He decided he needed to get out of town
1258
00:55:51,639 --> 00:55:53,767
and he took all of the records with him.
1259
00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:55,518
[Fischer] I packed up some boxes,
1260
00:55:55,602 --> 00:55:57,979
brought them to Ocala
and put them in a storage up there.
1261
00:55:58,063 --> 00:56:01,733
[reporter] Rodriguez has retained
noted Defense Counsel Roy Black.
1262
00:56:01,816 --> 00:56:03,401
He's also retained a PR firm
1263
00:56:03,485 --> 00:56:06,237
and they had this statement issued
today on his behalf.
1264
00:56:06,321 --> 00:56:07,739
[reading]
1265
00:56:12,202 --> 00:56:14,329
[Bosch] Shortly after the New Times story,
1266
00:56:14,412 --> 00:56:17,040
Yahoo Sports came out
with their own story,
1267
00:56:17,123 --> 00:56:19,292
almost as a follow up.
1268
00:56:19,375 --> 00:56:21,294
All of a sudden,
there was new names coming out
1269
00:56:21,377 --> 00:56:24,589
and marquee name on there was Ryan Braun.
1270
00:56:24,672 --> 00:56:26,382
[reporter] Braun is listed
with other players
1271
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:29,177
identified as clients of Biogenesis,
1272
00:56:29,260 --> 00:56:31,179
the shuttered Coral Gables clinic
1273
00:56:31,262 --> 00:56:34,724
at the heart of a widening
Major League Baseball doping scandal.
1274
00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,434
It later emerged that
1275
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:39,562
the name was leaked
by Alex Rodriguez's camp.
1276
00:56:39,646 --> 00:56:43,691
His idea was that
the more people involved in the scandal,
1277
00:56:43,775 --> 00:56:45,151
the less heat would be on him.
1278
00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:46,820
[Bosch] It wasn't only Ryan Braun
on there,
1279
00:56:46,903 --> 00:56:49,906
there was also Francisco Cervelli,
a teammate of Alex.
1280
00:56:49,989 --> 00:56:51,574
And you know, that sucks
1281
00:56:51,658 --> 00:56:54,327
that your own teammate
throws you out there
1282
00:56:54,410 --> 00:56:56,371
just to get the focus off of him,
you know.
1283
00:56:56,454 --> 00:56:59,999
The highest paid player
in baseball history
1284
00:57:00,083 --> 00:57:03,878
throwing this $500,000-a-year ball player
under the bus.
1285
00:57:03,962 --> 00:57:06,089
Everybody was out for themselves,
1286
00:57:06,172 --> 00:57:08,258
everybody was out to protect themselves.
1287
00:57:08,341 --> 00:57:10,176
[woman speaking foreign language]
1288
00:57:16,933 --> 00:57:18,017
[man grunts]
1289
00:57:19,144 --> 00:57:20,145
[grunts]
1290
00:57:23,773 --> 00:57:25,608
[woman continues]
1291
00:57:32,407 --> 00:57:34,033
[Fischer] When the story broke,
that's when I expected
1292
00:57:34,117 --> 00:57:35,702
somebody to knock on my door
in law enforcement.
1293
00:57:35,785 --> 00:57:37,454
Whether it be Coral Gables
Police Department,
1294
00:57:37,537 --> 00:57:40,290
Miami Police Department, DEA, somebody.
1295
00:57:40,373 --> 00:57:41,458
And nobody came.
1296
00:57:41,541 --> 00:57:43,835
And I was getting frustrated,
because I was like,
1297
00:57:44,878 --> 00:57:46,754
"Does anybody not care about this?"
1298
00:57:46,838 --> 00:57:49,841
[Elfrink] He invited me to come
talk to him at his house
1299
00:57:49,924 --> 00:57:51,217
in South Miami.
1300
00:57:51,301 --> 00:57:53,470
At the time, Porter was living
in a guest house
1301
00:57:53,553 --> 00:57:55,430
behind the house he grew up in.
1302
00:57:55,513 --> 00:57:57,223
When I found him there,
1303
00:57:57,932 --> 00:58:02,228
he was drinking heavily,
Kool-Aid and vodka from a big plastic cup.
1304
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:05,190
His apartment was a mess.
1305
00:58:05,773 --> 00:58:09,444
He had a big statue
of the Incredible Hulk.
1306
00:58:09,527 --> 00:58:13,531
As I sat down, I noticed he had
a gun out on the table, too.
1307
00:58:13,615 --> 00:58:17,243
Tim says somebody in law enforcement,
1308
00:58:17,327 --> 00:58:19,078
code enforcement called.
1309
00:58:19,162 --> 00:58:20,914
And I was like, "What?"
and I go "Who is it?"
1310
00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:22,707
And he goes, "The Department of Health."
1311
00:58:23,166 --> 00:58:24,751
And I was like, "Department of Health?"
1312
00:58:24,834 --> 00:58:30,340
You know, don't they give tickets
to restaurants for dirty bathrooms?
1313
00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:36,054
I thought, in short order, that I would be
able to make a case against Anthony Bosch
1314
00:58:36,137 --> 00:58:39,724
if I had cooperation
from a couple of individuals.
1315
00:58:39,807 --> 00:58:43,019
[Fischer] Detective Hill,
he was a narcotics officer in Baltimore.
1316
00:58:43,102 --> 00:58:46,523
I didn't know why he switched
to the Florida Department of Health.
1317
00:58:46,606 --> 00:58:50,652
When I asked, and he finally told me,
he told me that he got into a disagreement
1318
00:58:50,735 --> 00:58:52,195
with his supervisors.
1319
00:58:52,278 --> 00:58:54,280
[reporter] Baltimore City Police
set up a sting
1320
00:58:54,364 --> 00:58:56,074
to catch one of their own.
1321
00:58:56,157 --> 00:59:00,453
The target, 35-year-old Jerome Hill,
a four-year Southeast veteran.
1322
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:04,040
They have gotten calls saying the cop
was taking people's money.
1323
00:59:04,123 --> 00:59:06,626
[Elfrink] Like so many characters
in Florida,
1324
00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:08,419
Jerome Hill had ended up here
1325
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:11,965
after running into some legal troubles
out of state.
1326
00:59:12,048 --> 00:59:14,342
The officer who's the target
of the investigation
1327
00:59:14,425 --> 00:59:16,135
assaulted the undercover DEA officer.
1328
00:59:16,219 --> 00:59:17,929
[reporter continues]
Attacked by his fellow officer,
1329
00:59:18,012 --> 00:59:19,681
the cop then handcuffed Hill.
1330
00:59:20,139 --> 00:59:22,559
He is now charged
with second degree assault.
1331
00:59:22,642 --> 00:59:24,852
Jerome Hill had read our story
1332
00:59:24,936 --> 00:59:27,230
and his job was to investigate
1333
00:59:27,313 --> 00:59:29,774
unlicensed physicians and pharmacies.
1334
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:32,777
[Fischer] The first time
we met face to face
1335
00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:34,279
was at a Hooters.
1336
00:59:36,489 --> 00:59:39,617
[Hill] I told him, "I just don't give
a fuck about Major League Baseball
1337
00:59:39,701 --> 00:59:41,869
and everything that goes on."
1338
00:59:41,953 --> 00:59:43,705
[Fischer] He's like,
"I don't care about ball players.
1339
00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:46,457
I'm all about physicians, fake physicians
1340
00:59:46,541 --> 00:59:48,001
and pharmacies, and drugs,
1341
00:59:48,084 --> 00:59:49,877
and protecting people and their kids."
1342
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:52,255
Okay, finally,
somebody sees the big picture
1343
00:59:52,338 --> 00:59:53,756
of what this is really about.
1344
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,801
Tony Bosch has been around this scene
for a lot of years.
1345
00:59:56,884 --> 01:00:00,305
He tells people that he is a doctor.
He is not a medical doctor.
1346
01:00:00,388 --> 01:00:04,267
You know, one of the things
that has bothered me the most
1347
01:00:04,350 --> 01:00:06,269
has been the marginalization
1348
01:00:06,352 --> 01:00:10,189
of myself as a person and of my work.
1349
01:00:10,273 --> 01:00:14,319
They talked about, you know,
being a fraudulent doctor,
1350
01:00:14,402 --> 01:00:15,903
being a fake doctor.
1351
01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:17,488
-[woman] The fake doctor--
-[man 1] The phony doctor--
1352
01:00:17,572 --> 01:00:19,073
[man 2] A quote-unquote "fake doctor..."
1353
01:00:19,157 --> 01:00:21,075
[Bosch] Fake and unlicensed
are two different things.
1354
01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:23,036
The way I look at a fake doctor is,
1355
01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:24,954
you wake up in the morning,
you're a baker,
1356
01:00:25,038 --> 01:00:26,914
and all of a sudden,
you want to be a doctor today,
1357
01:00:26,998 --> 01:00:29,000
and you hang a fake diploma there because,
1358
01:00:29,083 --> 01:00:32,253
you know, of course, any printer in Miami
will print you a real diploma.
1359
01:00:32,337 --> 01:00:34,422
You know, and so, uh...
1360
01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:38,384
[stammering]
You put a diploma on the wall,
1361
01:00:38,468 --> 01:00:42,013
and start calling yourself a doctor.
1362
01:00:42,096 --> 01:00:43,640
That to me is a fake doctor.
1363
01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:45,683
An unlicensed physician
1364
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:49,604
is a physician who studied,
1365
01:00:49,687 --> 01:00:51,481
who did their clinical clerkships,
1366
01:00:51,564 --> 01:00:54,192
because if not, you couldn't have
graduated from medical school.
1367
01:00:54,275 --> 01:00:58,446
Okay, who might have done their residency
in another country
1368
01:00:58,863 --> 01:01:02,575
but cannot acquire his license here
for one reason or another.
1369
01:01:02,659 --> 01:01:05,244
You know what I say about that?
"Fuck out of here with that."
1370
01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:07,580
You know, you can go ahead
and tell Bobo the Clown about that.
1371
01:01:07,664 --> 01:01:09,457
But you're not telling me that.
1372
01:01:09,540 --> 01:01:13,544
Fraud is basically
the unofficial state business of Florida.
1373
01:01:13,628 --> 01:01:16,756
You know, there's 80 to 100
billion dollars in fraud
1374
01:01:16,839 --> 01:01:19,008
and improper payments in Medicare a year.
1375
01:01:19,092 --> 01:01:21,135
Ten to 15% of the program.
1376
01:01:21,260 --> 01:01:24,430
Isn't that Florida's...
Isn't that Florida's whole economy?
1377
01:01:24,514 --> 01:01:26,974
Well, part of it.
A lot of it comes from Dade County.
1378
01:01:27,058 --> 01:01:29,060
That's became even more true
in recent years,
1379
01:01:29,143 --> 01:01:31,562
thanks to Florida Governor Rick Scott.
1380
01:01:31,646 --> 01:01:34,607
Before getting into politics,
Scott actually ran a company
1381
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,276
that committed the largest
Medicare fraud in history.
1382
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,363
In one deposition,
he pleaded the Fifth 75 times.
1383
01:01:40,446 --> 01:01:43,324
-[interviewer] What's your question?
-I don't recall. I wouldn't know.
1384
01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:44,659
I'm not sure I understand.
1385
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:46,285
-You can't answer that question?
-No.
1386
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:50,289
[Elfrink] Shockingly enough,
Scott was not super excited about
1387
01:01:50,373 --> 01:01:54,293
cracking down on fraudulent doctors
and medical industry in the state.
1388
01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:57,338
South Florida man arrested
accused of practicing bad medicine.
1389
01:01:57,422 --> 01:02:01,092
Officers say Jose Ramirez represented
himself as a doctor.
1390
01:02:01,175 --> 01:02:03,845
[reporter 2] Samir El Charif
promotes himself
1391
01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:07,348
as a beauty, cosmetic
and personal care doctor.
1392
01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:09,267
The police say he's a fake.
1393
01:02:09,350 --> 01:02:11,144
[reporter 3] A transgender woman
playing doctor
1394
01:02:11,227 --> 01:02:14,230
injecting substances
meant to fix a flat tire
1395
01:02:14,355 --> 01:02:15,732
into a woman's bottom.
1396
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,817
[reporter 4] Schreiber met this patient,
1397
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:21,404
a 55-year-old man, in February
at a Hialeah warehouse.
1398
01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:24,907
The patient alleges
that his penis was mutilated.
1399
01:02:24,991 --> 01:02:27,910
[reporter 5] Police in South Florida
said they are seeing more of these cases,
1400
01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:29,662
primarily in the Latin community,
1401
01:02:29,746 --> 01:02:33,291
and they hope arrests like this one
will make the public more aware
1402
01:02:33,416 --> 01:02:36,627
that a shingle outside the door
is not always a guarantee
1403
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:38,463
that a real doctor is inside.
1404
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:41,632
[speaking halting Spanish]
1405
01:02:49,557 --> 01:02:50,892
[reporter] In South Florida,
1406
01:02:50,975 --> 01:02:53,895
there are ton of these anti-aging clinics,
longevity centers.
1407
01:02:53,978 --> 01:02:55,104
They have a lot of different names
1408
01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:58,232
and baseball has been looking
into this for months.
1409
01:02:58,316 --> 01:03:01,986
But even if they got their hands
on the evidence that the New Times cites,
1410
01:03:02,069 --> 01:03:05,156
that wouldn't be enough.
You'd need somebody to swear an affidavit
1411
01:03:05,281 --> 01:03:07,867
to that evidence and say,
"Yes, this is true and accurate."
1412
01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:09,911
Essentially, you'd need Tony Bosch,
1413
01:03:10,036 --> 01:03:12,538
the guy who is believed
to be at the center of this.
1414
01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:14,499
[Elfrink] After the steroid era ended,
1415
01:03:14,582 --> 01:03:17,919
Major League Baseball created
their own department of investigations.
1416
01:03:18,002 --> 01:03:20,463
This isn't something most fans know about,
1417
01:03:20,546 --> 01:03:24,801
but, it's essentially almost
an internal FBI for Major League Baseball.
1418
01:03:25,301 --> 01:03:27,678
This department is mostly staffed
by former cops,
1419
01:03:27,762 --> 01:03:29,806
primarily cops from New York and Boston.
1420
01:03:31,015 --> 01:03:36,687
[Bosch] MLB sent a bunch of investigators
down here to Miami.
1421
01:03:36,771 --> 01:03:39,607
[Hill] The truth in the matter is
is they ran roughshod in South Florida.
1422
01:03:39,690 --> 01:03:42,235
They were using every strategy.
1423
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:46,906
Paying people off for information.
1424
01:03:47,365 --> 01:03:49,575
There was one
Major League Baseball investigator
1425
01:03:49,659 --> 01:03:52,829
that bought shoes for my girlfriend.
1426
01:03:52,912 --> 01:03:54,664
And then he sent flowers,
1427
01:03:54,747 --> 01:03:57,750
so he could, obviously, get to me.
1428
01:03:57,834 --> 01:03:59,877
But I was laughing. I was going, "Great."
1429
01:03:59,961 --> 01:04:01,921
You know, "I'm gonna send you
a laundry list,
1430
01:04:02,004 --> 01:04:04,382
so you can do my shopping, too,"
basically, is what I thought.
1431
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:06,509
But I said, "Honey, don't worry about it.
1432
01:04:06,592 --> 01:04:08,261
Let them keep on sending shit."
1433
01:04:08,344 --> 01:04:11,973
The investigation really took
some pretty incredibly silly turns.
1434
01:04:12,598 --> 01:04:15,601
It was just an absolute clown show
on the ground.
1435
01:04:15,685 --> 01:04:18,104
Investigators sleeping with witnesses.
1436
01:04:18,187 --> 01:04:21,482
[Elfrink] At one point,
Dan Mullin, the lead investigator,
1437
01:04:21,566 --> 01:04:23,568
ended up having an affair
1438
01:04:23,651 --> 01:04:27,071
with a former nurse
from Tony Bosch's clinic.
1439
01:04:27,154 --> 01:04:30,783
Congratulations, MLB. It looks like
you are doing a fantastic, bang-up job.
1440
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:32,869
[laughing] Biogenesis was better
than Tinder.
1441
01:04:32,952 --> 01:04:39,625
You had to know
that doing all that type of shenanigans,
1442
01:04:39,709 --> 01:04:44,005
that it was going to compromise
anybody's investigation.
1443
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:46,007
One day, there's a knock at my door,
1444
01:04:46,090 --> 01:04:48,426
and I opened up the door
and there's two guys standing there.
1445
01:04:48,509 --> 01:04:51,220
"Are you Porter?"
And I was like, "Well, who's asking?"
1446
01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:55,141
And they're like, "We're with MLB.
Detective Reilly and Maldonado."
1447
01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:57,560
"I have no comment.
I don't want to talk to you guys."
1448
01:04:57,643 --> 01:04:59,729
And he was like, "What do you want?
What would make you feel better?"
1449
01:04:59,812 --> 01:05:02,231
As a joke, I said, "You know what,
1450
01:05:02,315 --> 01:05:05,318
hey, I'd love a tanning salon
and a house in Central Florida."
1451
01:05:05,401 --> 01:05:07,486
"Is that what you want?
Is that what you'd like?
1452
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:09,655
We can make that happen.
Would you talk to us?"
1453
01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:10,781
And I'm thinking to myself,
1454
01:05:10,865 --> 01:05:13,659
"These guys really wanna talk to me
really, really bad."
1455
01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:16,287
And they turned around and handed me
an envelope, and I open it up.
1456
01:05:16,370 --> 01:05:19,457
And there's a lot of money in there.
It's five grand.
1457
01:05:19,540 --> 01:05:21,709
"This is for your help,
and there's more of that to come."
1458
01:05:24,879 --> 01:05:27,423
I agree to meet Reilly again.
1459
01:05:27,506 --> 01:05:29,300
So I met him at Deering Estate,
1460
01:05:29,383 --> 01:05:32,762
which is a park down south of me,
on Old Cutler.
1461
01:05:32,845 --> 01:05:35,514
And he's like, "Is it okay
if you talk to my boss?"
1462
01:05:35,598 --> 01:05:38,017
And I said, "Well, I haven't figured
all that out yet, I'm really not sure."
1463
01:05:38,100 --> 01:05:39,435
And he goes, "Well, he's here."
1464
01:05:39,518 --> 01:05:42,897
They were basically hiding in the bushes,
waiting for me to show up.
1465
01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:45,942
Around the corner,
walking down the row is Dan Mullin.
1466
01:05:46,025 --> 01:05:48,319
"I thought a lot about what's going on
1467
01:05:48,402 --> 01:05:51,447
and we'd like to make you
an employee of MLB."
1468
01:05:51,530 --> 01:05:55,076
And I was like, "For what?"
1469
01:05:55,159 --> 01:05:57,453
"To assist us."
I go, "Assist you picking up
1470
01:05:57,536 --> 01:05:59,205
baseballs at the park?" I mean...
1471
01:05:59,288 --> 01:06:02,083
He was like, "Oh, you could help us
decipher the documents,
1472
01:06:02,166 --> 01:06:04,543
and you could also go to other clinics,
1473
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:09,048
infiltrate those and see if there's
any other things we should know about."
1474
01:06:09,715 --> 01:06:11,759
[scoffs] "Are you crazy?
1475
01:06:11,842 --> 01:06:14,178
Do you realize I'm burned in this town?"
1476
01:06:14,261 --> 01:06:16,180
He said, "Well, what do you want?" I said,
1477
01:06:16,263 --> 01:06:17,682
"Well, I don't want to be your employee
1478
01:06:17,765 --> 01:06:20,184
and this stuff's worth
way more than ten grand."
1479
01:06:20,267 --> 01:06:23,354
I didn't like the way MLB
was dealing with me, number one.
1480
01:06:23,437 --> 01:06:24,897
The information I wanted,
1481
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:27,858
I already used the information,
I already gave it to the Miami New Times.
1482
01:06:27,942 --> 01:06:29,276
It was already out there.
1483
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,112
Why MLB wanted it?
1484
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:33,698
I don't know. To cover your ass?
1485
01:06:33,781 --> 01:06:34,907
To hide stuff? I don't know.
1486
01:06:35,032 --> 01:06:38,327
Were you embarrassed
that your anti-doping program
1487
01:06:38,411 --> 01:06:41,247
is nothing but a sham?
You know, I don't know.
1488
01:06:41,330 --> 01:06:43,666
But you're trying to push me and force me
into giving you information.
1489
01:06:43,749 --> 01:06:44,959
And who the fuck are you?
1490
01:06:45,042 --> 01:06:47,253
You're a private organization. You're MLB.
1491
01:06:47,336 --> 01:06:49,171
You're a fucking sport!
You're not the law.
1492
01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:52,216
[Hill] This was not
a law enforcement entity.
1493
01:06:53,342 --> 01:06:55,052
[scoffs] It's Major League Baseball.
1494
01:06:55,136 --> 01:06:58,097
[Fischer] The main attorney for MLB said,
1495
01:06:58,180 --> 01:07:03,019
"Hey, we're willing to offer you
a total of $125,000
1496
01:07:03,102 --> 01:07:05,104
for your documents."
1497
01:07:05,187 --> 01:07:07,440
So I turned them down.
I said, "No, it's not worth it."
1498
01:07:07,523 --> 01:07:12,361
He said that there were other parties
that were offering the same information.
1499
01:07:12,445 --> 01:07:14,363
And I thought he was bluffing.
1500
01:07:14,447 --> 01:07:17,033
And I was like, "Fine, go ahead.
Get it from them."
1501
01:07:17,116 --> 01:07:20,411
I don't want to end up with my head
floating in a canal somewhere.
1502
01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:24,790
[Hill] I told Porter Fischer
that I needed patient records
1503
01:07:24,874 --> 01:07:26,834
that were involved in this clinic.
1504
01:07:26,917 --> 01:07:30,504
I felt as though we had more than enough
evidence for probable cause.
1505
01:07:30,588 --> 01:07:31,922
But I needed those records.
1506
01:07:32,006 --> 01:07:34,258
I needed them as soon as yesterday.
1507
01:07:34,341 --> 01:07:37,887
He let me know that
it was up in Ocala, Florida.
1508
01:07:37,970 --> 01:07:39,138
[Fischer] He goes, "Go get them.
1509
01:07:39,221 --> 01:07:41,348
You're a witness for the state of Florida
for the Department of Health.
1510
01:07:41,432 --> 01:07:42,975
We're gonna proceed with this."
1511
01:07:43,059 --> 01:07:45,478
And I'd stopped off at Boca Tanning Club
in Boca Raton
1512
01:07:45,561 --> 01:07:47,188
on the way up to Ocala.
1513
01:07:47,271 --> 01:07:51,108
I came by there and tanned,
just like any other normal visit.
1514
01:07:51,192 --> 01:07:53,319
Gary was like, "Where are you going?"
I said, "I'm going up to Ocala."
1515
01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:54,862
And he's like, "What are you
going up there for?"
1516
01:07:54,945 --> 01:07:57,114
And I said, "I'm picking up some more
of these documents.
1517
01:07:57,198 --> 01:07:58,783
I got to turn them in
for the Department of Health."
1518
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:03,704
Gary Jones is the technician
that works for the Carbones,
1519
01:08:03,788 --> 01:08:06,665
that does service on the tanning beds.
1520
01:08:06,749 --> 01:08:09,502
I mean, I was there all the time
and I came to know Gary
1521
01:08:09,585 --> 01:08:11,420
just like I would know Pete and Anthony.
1522
01:08:11,504 --> 01:08:13,422
I was like, "Oh, is that...
Did you go to tech school for that?"
1523
01:08:13,506 --> 01:08:16,008
And he goes, "Yeah, I did.
When I got out of prison."
1524
01:08:16,092 --> 01:08:19,428
[Elfrink] Gary Jones is,
by any definition, a career criminal.
1525
01:08:19,512 --> 01:08:22,348
He had spent years in the '70s and '80s
1526
01:08:22,431 --> 01:08:25,851
making a living
counterfeiting US currency.
1527
01:08:25,935 --> 01:08:29,355
He became one of the major counterfeiters
on the east coast.
1528
01:08:29,438 --> 01:08:32,316
He eventually got caught,
he served two years in prison.
1529
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:34,110
And, like so many people in this story,
1530
01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:36,695
ended up trying to make
a new life for himself in Florida.
1531
01:08:36,779 --> 01:08:40,074
Down here, I mean, you don't walk around
and people say hi.
1532
01:08:40,157 --> 01:08:42,076
You don't say, "Hi, what's your name?
What's your phone number?
1533
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:43,244
Have you ever spent time in jail?"
1534
01:08:43,327 --> 01:08:44,745
You know, if you had to cut everybody off,
1535
01:08:44,829 --> 01:08:47,039
for any mistakes
you've ever made in the past,
1536
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:48,791
nobody would be talking to anybody.
1537
01:08:48,874 --> 01:08:52,294
Porter Fischer, God love him,
is a natural-born sucker.
1538
01:08:52,378 --> 01:08:55,506
He's somebody that's really willing
to trust people.
1539
01:08:55,589 --> 01:08:57,299
He's always looking for a friend.
1540
01:08:57,383 --> 01:08:59,468
And at this point in his life,
1541
01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:01,303
he actually had something really valuable.
1542
01:09:01,387 --> 01:09:04,098
He had these records
tied to this major scandal
1543
01:09:04,181 --> 01:09:06,308
that everybody wanted a piece of.
1544
01:09:06,392 --> 01:09:09,979
Gary Jones can smell a sucker
from a mile away.
1545
01:09:12,148 --> 01:09:14,859
[Fischer] I went up to Ocala
to go get boxes in storage.
1546
01:09:16,861 --> 01:09:18,195
Well, Sunday morning he calls me up,
1547
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:20,656
he's like, "Hey, what are you doing?"
I said, "I'm driving back down now."
1548
01:09:20,739 --> 01:09:23,492
"You got to stop by the salon
on the way down, I'll meet you there.
1549
01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:25,911
I got his new solution,
you're gonna love it.
1550
01:09:25,995 --> 01:09:27,580
I'm thinking about making this myself,
1551
01:09:27,663 --> 01:09:29,123
and I want you to be part of this,"
so-and-so...
1552
01:09:29,248 --> 01:09:32,126
"You know all about tanning."
And Porter this, Porter that.
1553
01:09:32,209 --> 01:09:35,129
And pushed all the right buttons,
and it's something I enjoy doing.
1554
01:09:35,212 --> 01:09:36,380
So I said, "Okay, I'll be there."
1555
01:09:36,463 --> 01:09:37,882
He goes, "What time
are you gonna be here?"
1556
01:09:37,965 --> 01:09:39,884
I said, "I don't know.
12:30, 1:00, somewhere around there."
1557
01:09:39,967 --> 01:09:42,428
And I parked in the back,
right next to where Anthony was parked,
1558
01:09:42,511 --> 01:09:44,138
and where Gary was parked.
1559
01:09:45,472 --> 01:09:47,183
Gary's there, Anthony's there.
1560
01:09:47,266 --> 01:09:49,476
"Good seeing you,"
so on and so forth, fist bump,
1561
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,228
and Anthony's leaving.
1562
01:09:51,312 --> 01:09:53,022
I walk around up
to the front of the store with Gary,
1563
01:09:53,105 --> 01:09:54,565
"You're gonna go
to the Department of Health?"
1564
01:09:54,648 --> 01:09:55,858
I said, "Yeah," you know.
1565
01:09:55,941 --> 01:09:58,235
"I had to go pick up documents and stuff,
I gotta put an end to this."
1566
01:09:58,319 --> 01:10:00,946
He said, "Oh, okay. Well, go on in there,
go try the solution."
1567
01:10:01,030 --> 01:10:03,073
He walks me in, just like normal.
1568
01:10:04,158 --> 01:10:07,036
So I go in there, and I get the spray tan.
1569
01:10:09,288 --> 01:10:11,081
I'm in there for ten minutes or so.
1570
01:10:11,165 --> 01:10:13,375
I come back out and Gary's in the lobby.
1571
01:10:13,500 --> 01:10:16,295
"Hey, yo, how does it smell?
Oh, the color looks fantastic.
1572
01:10:16,378 --> 01:10:18,672
Hey, how did... Doesn't the color
look fantastic?" Blah, blah.
1573
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:20,674
"Hey, you know what? That's great.
I'm gonna go give it a try."
1574
01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:22,426
So he walks back.
1575
01:10:22,509 --> 01:10:24,136
Got my shoes on
and I'm walking out to my car.
1576
01:10:24,220 --> 01:10:27,681
And I see my door's open,
and my trunk is open.
1577
01:10:27,765 --> 01:10:29,141
And glass all over the place.
1578
01:10:29,975 --> 01:10:31,477
"Is that my car?"
1579
01:10:35,272 --> 01:10:36,482
Everything's gone.
1580
01:10:36,565 --> 01:10:38,234
So I go running back into the salon,
1581
01:10:38,317 --> 01:10:41,445
and I yell at the girl,
I said, "Call 911. Call 911."
1582
01:10:41,570 --> 01:10:43,155
I went back to the room
and I'm banging on the door.
1583
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:44,698
I'm like, "Gary, get out here,
I've been robbed."
1584
01:10:44,782 --> 01:10:46,742
And he's like, "What?"
I'm like, "Get out here, I've been robbed.
1585
01:10:46,825 --> 01:10:48,827
Somebody broke into my car
and took all my shit. Took everything."
1586
01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:52,206
He walks up to his van
and his window's smashed in.
1587
01:10:52,289 --> 01:10:54,875
And he's like, "Ah! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God, they broke into my car, too."
1588
01:10:54,959 --> 01:10:55,876
So on and so forth.
1589
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,212
Anthony comes up,
"Oh, you know, what happened?
1590
01:10:58,295 --> 01:10:59,630
Oh, somebody broke into the car?"
1591
01:10:59,713 --> 01:11:01,048
And I'm saying,
"Hey, is there any cameras?
1592
01:11:01,131 --> 01:11:03,092
Is there any cameras back here?
Is there any cameras back here?"
1593
01:11:03,175 --> 01:11:05,219
They're like, "No, no, no."
1594
01:11:05,302 --> 01:11:06,262
The cop shows up,
1595
01:11:06,345 --> 01:11:07,930
I'm jumping up and down,
I'm telling the cop,
1596
01:11:08,013 --> 01:11:09,682
"Look, they took everything,
they took everything."
1597
01:11:09,765 --> 01:11:10,683
And he's like, "Calm down."
1598
01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:13,018
And I'm like, "They took evidence.
They took state's evidence
1599
01:11:13,102 --> 01:11:14,228
for a criminal case."
1600
01:11:14,311 --> 01:11:15,771
He's like, "Whoa,
what are you talking about?"
1601
01:11:15,854 --> 01:11:18,941
I go, "Biogenesis.
Biogenesis. Baseball. Alex.
1602
01:11:19,024 --> 01:11:21,402
You know what I'm talking about? A-Rod."
1603
01:11:21,485 --> 01:11:23,737
And I turned and got my phone
and I call up Detective Hill.
1604
01:11:23,821 --> 01:11:28,867
[Hill] He explained to me
that his car got broken into
1605
01:11:28,951 --> 01:11:33,455
and his records,
everything that I had asked for,
1606
01:11:33,539 --> 01:11:36,208
was stolen from his vehicle.
1607
01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:37,668
[Fischer] I said,
"I'm here in front of a cop,
1608
01:11:37,751 --> 01:11:38,752
and I'm freaking out
1609
01:11:38,836 --> 01:11:41,672
and I think the cop is looking at me like
what's this crazy guy talking about?"
1610
01:11:41,755 --> 01:11:44,800
Who in the world steals
other people's medical files?
1611
01:11:44,883 --> 01:11:48,887
How in the world could this happen?
Was it MLB? Was it Alex's people?
1612
01:11:48,971 --> 01:11:50,431
Was it Bosch's people?
1613
01:11:50,514 --> 01:11:52,516
How did this happen?
1614
01:11:52,599 --> 01:11:58,147
I didn't know how anybody would know
that I had boxes in Ocala.
1615
01:11:58,230 --> 01:11:59,982
How anybody would know where I was.
1616
01:12:00,065 --> 01:12:02,026
And I was thinking, "Is my car bugged?
1617
01:12:02,109 --> 01:12:03,944
Is my phone bugged?"
1618
01:12:04,028 --> 01:12:05,279
"What about your friends?"
1619
01:12:05,362 --> 01:12:07,323
And I'm like, "There's no way.
How would they know?
1620
01:12:07,406 --> 01:12:08,991
How would they orchestrate this?
1621
01:12:09,074 --> 01:12:12,202
Who... Gary was there when I went in.
1622
01:12:12,286 --> 01:12:14,538
He... He was tanning right there."
You know...
1623
01:12:14,663 --> 01:12:16,206
And I turn around
and look at a little mark
1624
01:12:16,290 --> 01:12:20,377
next to the passenger side,
where the key is, where the handle is.
1625
01:12:20,461 --> 01:12:22,921
And I said to the CSI person,
I said, "Is that blood?"
1626
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,632
And she looks at it
and she goes, "Sure is."
1627
01:12:25,716 --> 01:12:26,842
[camera clicking]
1628
01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:31,722
I got a call
from the Boca Police Department.
1629
01:12:31,805 --> 01:12:34,641
[man over phone] "Do you know
a Reginald St. Fleur?"
1630
01:12:34,725 --> 01:12:37,519
[Fischer] "Reginald St...
You mean Reggie?"
1631
01:12:37,603 --> 01:12:41,148
Reggie St. Fleur was just a gofer.
1632
01:12:41,231 --> 01:12:44,151
Reggie would hand out flyers
at Boca Tanning Club,
1633
01:12:44,234 --> 01:12:45,819
he would change light bulbs.
1634
01:12:45,903 --> 01:12:47,279
And I'm like, "Yeah, I know him."
1635
01:12:47,363 --> 01:12:50,866
[man over phone] "Okay, because
we just got back the DNA match,
1636
01:12:50,949 --> 01:12:53,285
and it matches Reginald."
1637
01:12:53,369 --> 01:12:56,080
[Fischer] Automatically, I was like,
1638
01:12:56,163 --> 01:13:00,209
"I just... I just got screwed.
I just got screwed bad."
1639
01:13:02,086 --> 01:13:05,839
I was played, I was played by Gary.
I was played by Anthony.
1640
01:13:06,298 --> 01:13:08,050
So it was you guys.
1641
01:13:08,675 --> 01:13:10,803
Porter had only told one person
1642
01:13:10,886 --> 01:13:12,679
that he was driving to Ocala
to get these files
1643
01:13:12,805 --> 01:13:15,808
and coming back down,
and that was Gary Jones.
1644
01:13:15,891 --> 01:13:19,520
[Fischer] And when you look who hired
Reginald Fleur's lawyer...
1645
01:13:19,603 --> 01:13:20,979
Well, it was the Carbones.
1646
01:13:21,063 --> 01:13:25,692
[reporter] Reginald St. Fleur,
he's facing a charge of armed burglary
1647
01:13:25,776 --> 01:13:27,194
after he broke into a car
1648
01:13:27,277 --> 01:13:29,988
parked at a Boca Raton tanning salon
in March.
1649
01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:32,282
The car belonged to the man
who blew the whistle
1650
01:13:32,366 --> 01:13:34,326
on the Miami Biogenesis clinic
1651
01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:35,953
where more than a dozen athletes
1652
01:13:36,036 --> 01:13:39,415
were allegedly given
performance-enhancing drugs.
1653
01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:42,960
Inside the car, the documents
that led to the national scandal.
1654
01:13:43,043 --> 01:13:46,672
What I told Major League Baseball
investigator Dominguez
1655
01:13:46,755 --> 01:13:50,175
was that Porter Fischer's car
was just broken into,
1656
01:13:50,259 --> 01:13:54,471
and they contained
a plethora of patient files
1657
01:13:54,555 --> 01:13:57,057
that were being turned over to the state.
1658
01:13:58,392 --> 01:14:01,019
If you were to get any of those files,
1659
01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:06,442
you are to notify the state immediately
upon receiving those files,
1660
01:14:06,525 --> 01:14:09,278
as part of a state investigation.
1661
01:14:09,361 --> 01:14:11,238
I don't know how much
more clearer I could be.
1662
01:14:12,072 --> 01:14:14,366
Porter Fischer had no idea,
1663
01:14:14,450 --> 01:14:16,493
but the same guys
that he had decided to trust
1664
01:14:16,577 --> 01:14:18,829
in his tanning salon crew,
1665
01:14:18,912 --> 01:14:21,290
were essentially an organized crime ring
1666
01:14:21,373 --> 01:14:23,876
that had realized they had
two sets of patsies
1667
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:25,210
they could play off each other
1668
01:14:25,294 --> 01:14:27,171
in Alex Rodriguez
and Major League Baseball.
1669
01:14:27,254 --> 01:14:30,716
And they set out to make as much money
as they possibly can from this thing.
1670
01:14:32,968 --> 01:14:35,304
The Carbones had already sold
the original notebooks
1671
01:14:38,765 --> 01:14:40,142
to Alex Rodriguez.
1672
01:14:44,021 --> 01:14:47,232
But unbeknownst to A-Rod,
1673
01:14:47,316 --> 01:14:49,568
Pete actually had another copy of these.
1674
01:14:49,651 --> 01:14:53,614
Porter Fischer had given him a flash drive
with scans of all of these notebooks.
1675
01:14:57,326 --> 01:14:59,077
So next, they approached
Major League Baseball,
1676
01:14:59,161 --> 01:15:01,246
which was desperate
to get this information.
1677
01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:05,209
[Rob Manfred] We got a call
from a gentleman
1678
01:15:05,292 --> 01:15:07,753
who identified himself only as Bobby.
1679
01:15:09,588 --> 01:15:12,758
And said he had the Biogenesis documents
1680
01:15:12,841 --> 01:15:17,221
and offered to make an agreement with us
to get those documents.
1681
01:15:21,725 --> 01:15:23,435
Make an agreement?
He offered to sell them to you?
1682
01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:24,937
That's correct. That's correct.
1683
01:15:25,020 --> 01:15:26,355
-He offered...
-And you offered to buy them?
1684
01:15:26,438 --> 01:15:28,690
He offered to sell them
and we bought them.
1685
01:15:28,774 --> 01:15:31,652
-How much?
-$100,000.
1686
01:15:32,110 --> 01:15:36,073
[Elfrink] Major League Baseball
is handing over $100,000 cash
1687
01:15:36,156 --> 01:15:38,659
to a convicted felon in a diner,
1688
01:15:38,742 --> 01:15:41,745
to get stolen documents from a clinic.
1689
01:15:41,828 --> 01:15:43,413
Unbeknownst to each other,
1690
01:15:43,497 --> 01:15:46,083
there are two different patrons
at side tables
1691
01:15:46,166 --> 01:15:48,126
secretly filming the entire operation.
1692
01:15:48,210 --> 01:15:50,504
One of them is Anthony Carbone,
1693
01:15:50,587 --> 01:15:53,757
who knows there could be some profit
from Alex Rodriguez
1694
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:55,551
if he has tape of this, obviously,
1695
01:15:55,634 --> 01:15:57,678
very shady transaction happening.
1696
01:16:07,980 --> 01:16:10,983
On the other table is
a Major League Baseball official filming.
1697
01:16:11,066 --> 01:16:13,777
Gary and the Carbones
weren't finished though.
1698
01:16:13,860 --> 01:16:15,904
Major League Baseball had told Gary Jones,
1699
01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:19,032
"If you can get us hard copies,
not just scans,
1700
01:16:19,116 --> 01:16:20,909
there's even more money in this for you."
1701
01:16:20,993 --> 01:16:24,246
So then I thought, "Oh, okay,
that's why Gary orchestrated the break-in,
1702
01:16:24,329 --> 01:16:26,915
to get paid again on top of this."
1703
01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:31,336
Then there was a second purchase
for $25,000.
1704
01:16:32,087 --> 01:16:33,797
[Bosch] I still don't know
who Gary Jones is.
1705
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:35,757
But he had made the most money
out of this whole thing.
1706
01:16:35,841 --> 01:16:38,218
I mean, it's just amazing.
1707
01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:40,387
[Fischer] My lawyer talked to Bob Manfred.
1708
01:16:40,470 --> 01:16:44,391
Rob Manfred was the second-in-command
right behind Bud Selig at MLB.
1709
01:16:44,474 --> 01:16:47,936
"A lot of the fingers are pointing to you
as being responsible for this break-in
1710
01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:49,855
and the disappearance of this evidence."
1711
01:16:49,938 --> 01:16:51,523
Bob Manfred said, "Well, look.
1712
01:16:51,607 --> 01:16:54,526
We sure didn't have
anything to do with the break-in,
1713
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:56,069
but we know who did."
1714
01:16:56,153 --> 01:16:59,031
[Elfrink] Major League Baseball
had to know that these files
1715
01:16:59,114 --> 01:17:02,200
had been stolen amidst
a criminal investigation
1716
01:17:02,284 --> 01:17:03,785
by Jerome Hill and the state.
1717
01:17:03,869 --> 01:17:08,040
And yet, no one was ever charged
except for Reggie St. Fleur,
1718
01:17:08,123 --> 01:17:10,125
the absolute lowest level
on the totem pole
1719
01:17:10,208 --> 01:17:11,543
who actually broke into the car.
1720
01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:13,086
[Hill] Make no mistake,
1721
01:17:13,170 --> 01:17:17,090
someone in Major League Baseball
should've been arrested and charged.
1722
01:17:17,174 --> 01:17:18,592
It's hard to draw any other conclusions
1723
01:17:18,675 --> 01:17:21,386
except that the local police force
didn't really have any interest
1724
01:17:21,470 --> 01:17:23,722
in trying to bring a case
that could end up
1725
01:17:23,805 --> 01:17:25,349
involving Major League Baseball.
1726
01:17:25,432 --> 01:17:27,643
You know, I'm getting dragged
into court, I'm by myself,
1727
01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:30,729
I have no friends.
Major League Baseball's pushing me around.
1728
01:17:30,812 --> 01:17:32,898
I feel very unappreciated.
1729
01:17:32,981 --> 01:17:36,109
None of this would be happening
if it wasn't for me.
1730
01:17:36,193 --> 01:17:39,404
Where's my thank you?
Where's my cupcake, you know?
1731
01:17:39,488 --> 01:17:42,991
[interviewer] What has it been like,
in those months since your name came out?
1732
01:17:43,075 --> 01:17:44,409
[Bosch] I don't have any friends anymore.
1733
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:46,953
I don't go to the same locations
I used to go to.
1734
01:17:47,037 --> 01:17:49,539
My blinds are closed all the time.
1735
01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:52,167
I have a concealed weapons permit,
and now I continually carry a weapon.
1736
01:17:52,250 --> 01:17:54,878
It's not what I expected.
It's not what I got involved for.
1737
01:17:55,587 --> 01:17:58,215
[Elfrink] For every sleazy thing Major
League Baseball did in South Florida,
1738
01:17:58,298 --> 01:18:01,677
trying to pay witnesses,
threatening people to cooperate,
1739
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,638
A-Rod and his crew were doing
almost the exact same thing.
1740
01:18:04,721 --> 01:18:08,016
[Bosch] Alex was the first one
to reach out.
1741
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:10,310
A-Rod's people tried to make
the case to Tony
1742
01:18:10,394 --> 01:18:13,063
that they could keep him safe,
that they could pay his bills.
1743
01:18:13,146 --> 01:18:16,191
They talked about sending him
down to Colombia to lay low.
1744
01:18:16,274 --> 01:18:18,151
[Bosch] They offered to pay my attorney.
1745
01:18:18,235 --> 01:18:20,779
Basically, to keep me quiet, type of deal.
1746
01:18:20,862 --> 01:18:24,991
So the idea was for both legal teams
to work together
1747
01:18:25,075 --> 01:18:28,537
to try to fend off this
Major League Baseball investigation.
1748
01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:31,415
His team paid $25,000, I believe.
1749
01:18:31,498 --> 01:18:35,460
But there was always
something behind all his offers.
1750
01:18:35,544 --> 01:18:40,048
They had some type of angle
that worked in his favor and not in mine.
1751
01:18:40,132 --> 01:18:42,843
[Elfrink] He did everything he could
to obstruct this investigation
1752
01:18:42,926 --> 01:18:46,263
and to try to keep Tony Bosch
out of Major League Baseball's hands.
1753
01:18:46,346 --> 01:18:50,183
Rock bottom for me in 2013
was basically me. The end of me.
1754
01:18:50,267 --> 01:18:54,146
[Elfrink] He'd been dodging MLB
and A-Rod for months.
1755
01:18:54,229 --> 01:18:56,148
His only source of income,
1756
01:18:56,231 --> 01:18:59,526
Biogenesis and the steroid sales,
had obviously disappeared.
1757
01:18:59,609 --> 01:19:00,986
He had mounting legal costs.
1758
01:19:01,445 --> 01:19:05,532
[Bosch] And I had a child support hearing
to try to reduce the child support
1759
01:19:05,615 --> 01:19:07,743
and I had to fill out
a financial affidavit.
1760
01:19:07,826 --> 01:19:10,495
And I think what I told my attorney was,
1761
01:19:10,579 --> 01:19:12,831
"You know, what do I put here?
'Cause I don't have...
1762
01:19:12,914 --> 01:19:14,124
I don't have any money."
1763
01:19:14,207 --> 01:19:15,417
I was broke.
1764
01:19:16,042 --> 01:19:18,462
The DEA was investigating.
1765
01:19:18,545 --> 01:19:20,255
The state was investigating.
1766
01:19:21,173 --> 01:19:23,425
MLB was investigating.
1767
01:19:23,508 --> 01:19:25,427
[chuckling] A-Rod's people
were investigating.
1768
01:19:25,510 --> 01:19:29,598
And I was facing possible jail time
from the state.
1769
01:19:29,681 --> 01:19:33,643
I realized that the roof
was caving in on me.
1770
01:19:33,727 --> 01:19:36,730
I think the best strategy
is to align myself
1771
01:19:36,813 --> 01:19:38,648
with a powerful ally,
1772
01:19:38,732 --> 01:19:42,819
so I could, you know,
so I could basically face the music.
1773
01:19:42,903 --> 01:19:46,072
And that's when I decided to do
an interview with Pedro Gomez
1774
01:19:46,156 --> 01:19:47,449
on ESPN.
1775
01:19:47,532 --> 01:19:50,744
We have mutual friends,
very strong mutual friends.
1776
01:19:50,827 --> 01:19:54,623
Pedro Gomez is from Miami,
he went to Coral Park High.
1777
01:19:54,706 --> 01:19:56,958
[Gomez] You always hear about
six degrees of separation
1778
01:19:57,083 --> 01:19:58,335
from Kevin Bacon.
1779
01:19:58,418 --> 01:20:02,547
In Miami, it's probably one degree
of separation from anybody.
1780
01:20:02,631 --> 01:20:04,508
And especially in the Cuban community,
1781
01:20:04,591 --> 01:20:06,468
especially people that
grew up in the '80s.
1782
01:20:06,551 --> 01:20:09,596
Pedro was one of the few guys
that I trusted at that time.
1783
01:20:09,679 --> 01:20:12,724
He was my therapist, he was my, you know,
1784
01:20:12,808 --> 01:20:14,184
he was my drinking buddy.
1785
01:20:14,267 --> 01:20:17,354
I kind of had the idea
that he was shopping
1786
01:20:17,437 --> 01:20:19,105
to get an offer.
1787
01:20:19,189 --> 01:20:22,359
[Bosch] Pedro suggested,
you know, "You're a mess.
1788
01:20:22,442 --> 01:20:25,278
You're gonna be dead
by the time this thing blows over.
1789
01:20:25,403 --> 01:20:29,449
I think you should call Manfred
and see if you guys could set up
1790
01:20:29,533 --> 01:20:32,702
some type of deal
and put this thing to rest."
1791
01:20:32,786 --> 01:20:35,997
I said, "Listen, you get the interview,
and I get the message out."
1792
01:20:36,706 --> 01:20:40,335
That interview with Pedro Gomez
was at Monty's in Coconut Grove.
1793
01:20:43,380 --> 01:20:45,841
You know, the bar
that's right behind me here,
1794
01:20:45,924 --> 01:20:47,300
is where he was sitting.
1795
01:20:47,384 --> 01:20:49,511
I just told him to stand out there
and I'll come out in a second.
1796
01:20:49,594 --> 01:20:51,179
We were waiting out here.
1797
01:20:51,972 --> 01:20:54,474
[Bosch] I had a few drinks.
I was coming out, I was with my attorney.
1798
01:20:55,350 --> 01:20:58,520
I said, "Might as well
just get this done and over with," so...
1799
01:20:59,020 --> 01:21:02,566
[Elfrink] ESPN cameras actually catch him
walking from the bar,
1800
01:21:02,649 --> 01:21:06,486
apparently after doing
a solid degree of day drinking.
1801
01:21:06,570 --> 01:21:08,738
Who knows if he had even
gone to sleep? [laughs]
1802
01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:11,575
Well, thanks for stopping
for a few questions.
1803
01:21:12,576 --> 01:21:14,870
Some of the things they've said
is that you supplied
1804
01:21:14,953 --> 01:21:16,830
performance-enhancing drugs.
1805
01:21:16,913 --> 01:21:19,249
-What's your reaction to that?
-No comment.
1806
01:21:20,250 --> 01:21:21,585
I'm a nutritionist.
1807
01:21:21,668 --> 01:21:24,087
I don't know anything
about performance-enhancing drugs.
1808
01:21:24,170 --> 01:21:26,506
I had no idea
what I was saying in that interview,
1809
01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:27,799
to be quite honest with you.
1810
01:21:27,883 --> 01:21:31,136
Manny Ramirez
was a client of yours in 2009.
1811
01:21:31,219 --> 01:21:35,265
He tested positive with a prescription
that was signed by your father,
1812
01:21:35,348 --> 01:21:36,850
a doctor here in Miami.
1813
01:21:36,933 --> 01:21:39,269
Allegedly. That's untrue.
1814
01:21:39,352 --> 01:21:41,646
That your father's a doctor,
or that he signed...
1815
01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:43,648
My father is a licensed physician--
1816
01:21:43,732 --> 01:21:45,358
-Yes.
-In the state of Florida.
1817
01:21:45,442 --> 01:21:49,863
Probably the sweatiest, worst interview
in live television history.
1818
01:21:49,946 --> 01:21:53,450
There's other players that have been
reportedly linked to Biogenesis.
1819
01:21:53,533 --> 01:21:58,705
Braun. Melky Cabrera.
Bartolo Colon. Yasmani Grandal.
1820
01:21:58,788 --> 01:22:02,167
And they've all tested positive
for performance-enhancing drugs.
1821
01:22:02,250 --> 01:22:03,919
What can you tell us about that?
1822
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:05,629
You're asking the wrong individual.
1823
01:22:05,712 --> 01:22:08,048
You're gonna have to ask
their trainers or handlers.
1824
01:22:08,131 --> 01:22:09,132
I have no comment.
1825
01:22:09,215 --> 01:22:11,885
-[Gomez] Alex Rodriguez.
-Like I said, no comment.
1826
01:22:13,053 --> 01:22:15,472
But, you know what, I got the message.
1827
01:22:15,555 --> 01:22:16,890
It's Major League Baseball.
1828
01:22:16,973 --> 01:22:20,143
We know that Major League Baseball
has been combing through South Florida,
1829
01:22:20,226 --> 01:22:22,938
and an open investigation is underway.
1830
01:22:23,021 --> 01:22:25,607
What would it take for you to cooperate
1831
01:22:25,690 --> 01:22:27,525
with Major League Baseball's
investigators?
1832
01:22:28,151 --> 01:22:30,153
I've always been here, Pedro.
1833
01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:32,489
Have they reached out to you?
1834
01:22:32,572 --> 01:22:33,865
Not that I know of.
1835
01:22:33,949 --> 01:22:36,451
They haven't reached out to my attorneys.
They haven't reached out to me.
1836
01:22:36,534 --> 01:22:38,828
I'll cooperate, but there's no...
1837
01:22:38,912 --> 01:22:40,789
Nobody's reached out to me.
1838
01:22:41,665 --> 01:22:44,209
[Elfrink] That was basically
putting up the Bat-Signal to Bud Selig.
1839
01:22:44,292 --> 01:22:46,252
This guy was ready to turn snitch.
1840
01:22:46,336 --> 01:22:47,879
All they had to do was give him a call.
1841
01:22:47,963 --> 01:22:49,172
[Gomez] Tony, thank you for your time.
1842
01:22:49,255 --> 01:22:50,715
-Pedro, thanks.
-Okay.
1843
01:22:50,799 --> 01:22:52,467
[Bosch] About 15 minutes after,
1844
01:22:52,550 --> 01:22:55,220
I know Major League Baseball
contacted my attorney.
1845
01:22:56,346 --> 01:22:58,056
And so we set up an interview
1846
01:22:58,139 --> 01:23:00,600
and that's when I started working
with Major League Baseball.
1847
01:23:01,851 --> 01:23:03,228
It was easy to make that decision.
1848
01:23:03,311 --> 01:23:06,231
Who do I go with,
Alex or Major League Baseball?
1849
01:23:06,314 --> 01:23:08,984
With Alex, if I would've aligned
myself with Alex,
1850
01:23:09,067 --> 01:23:10,735
you know, it would've been all lies.
1851
01:23:10,819 --> 01:23:11,778
At the end of the day,
1852
01:23:11,861 --> 01:23:14,280
he's definitely
an eccentric multimillionaire
1853
01:23:14,364 --> 01:23:16,199
but, you know,
1854
01:23:16,282 --> 01:23:19,577
Major League Baseball
is an eccentric multi-billionaire.
1855
01:23:19,661 --> 01:23:23,623
[reporter] What is Tony Bosch's
motivation here
1856
01:23:23,707 --> 01:23:25,834
for cooperating with MLB?
1857
01:23:27,502 --> 01:23:29,921
[chuckles] It's probably
self-preservation.
1858
01:23:30,005 --> 01:23:33,341
[Bosch] And so they got what they wanted.
They won.
1859
01:23:33,425 --> 01:23:37,345
The other shoe is about to drop
in the baseball drug scandal.
1860
01:23:37,429 --> 01:23:40,015
[reporter 2] Major League Baseball
is poised to announce suspensions
1861
01:23:40,098 --> 01:23:42,225
that will make history and shake the game.
1862
01:23:42,308 --> 01:23:45,228
It includes some of the game's superstars
right at the top.
1863
01:23:45,311 --> 01:23:47,272
Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees.
1864
01:23:47,355 --> 01:23:50,483
The highest-paid player
in the history of baseball
1865
01:23:50,567 --> 01:23:53,278
might be one step away from losing it all.
1866
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:55,280
[reporter 3] His fate could rest
in the hands
1867
01:23:55,363 --> 01:23:57,282
of baseball's commissioner Bud Selig,
1868
01:23:57,365 --> 01:23:59,200
who according to some experts,
1869
01:23:59,284 --> 01:24:02,037
will attempt to take him
off the field this season,
1870
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:03,621
one way or another.
1871
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:07,250
There was talk about him
facing a lifetime ban.
1872
01:24:07,333 --> 01:24:09,044
Like my hero, Pete Rose.
1873
01:24:09,127 --> 01:24:10,879
[reporter continues] It'd be one
of the heaviest penalties
1874
01:24:10,962 --> 01:24:14,132
since Pete Rose was banned
from the game 24 years ago,
1875
01:24:14,215 --> 01:24:16,134
for betting on his own team.
1876
01:24:16,217 --> 01:24:17,761
[Bosch] You realize that
at the end of the day,
1877
01:24:17,844 --> 01:24:20,055
it wasn't even about PEDs
at this point in time.
1878
01:24:20,138 --> 01:24:22,348
It was about...
It was a war of legacy.
1879
01:24:22,432 --> 01:24:24,934
You know, Selig trying
to preserve his legacy
1880
01:24:25,018 --> 01:24:26,770
and Alex trying to preserve his.
1881
01:24:26,853 --> 01:24:28,938
[Gomez] Bud Selig will forever be known
as the commissioner
1882
01:24:29,022 --> 01:24:33,234
that was in charge
during the entire steroid era.
1883
01:24:33,318 --> 01:24:37,072
You know, when guys were hitting
50, 60, 70 home runs.
1884
01:24:37,155 --> 01:24:38,865
That all came on his watch.
1885
01:24:38,948 --> 01:24:41,117
[Elfrink] Alex Rodriguez,
more than any other player,
1886
01:24:41,201 --> 01:24:43,203
had made a complete mockery
1887
01:24:43,286 --> 01:24:46,498
of baseball's crackdown
on performance-enhancing drugs.
1888
01:24:46,581 --> 01:24:48,833
He'd been caught multiple times before.
1889
01:24:48,917 --> 01:24:51,544
He'd blatantly lied
on national television.
1890
01:24:51,628 --> 01:24:53,296
I think that really fueled
1891
01:24:53,379 --> 01:24:56,174
the extent baseball was willing to do
almost anything,
1892
01:24:56,257 --> 01:24:57,550
to get A-Rod.
1893
01:24:58,426 --> 01:25:00,095
Good evening. It's the most
sweeping punishment
1894
01:25:00,178 --> 01:25:02,931
to hit Major League Baseball,
the American pastime,
1895
01:25:03,014 --> 01:25:06,726
since the Chicago Black Sox
Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal
1896
01:25:06,810 --> 01:25:08,728
almost a century ago.
1897
01:25:08,812 --> 01:25:10,980
Thirteen players
have been swept up and punished
1898
01:25:11,064 --> 01:25:13,066
for performance-enhancing drugs.
1899
01:25:13,149 --> 01:25:15,151
And at the top of the list
of those suspended,
1900
01:25:15,235 --> 01:25:17,946
Alex Rodriguez
of the New York Yankees, A-Rod.
1901
01:25:18,029 --> 01:25:20,406
His suspension's for 211 games,
1902
01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:22,408
reminder of this season, all of the next,
1903
01:25:22,492 --> 01:25:26,246
all for the use and possession
of performance-enhancing drugs,
1904
01:25:26,329 --> 01:25:29,707
and allegedly acting to cover it up
and hamper the investigation.
1905
01:25:30,333 --> 01:25:34,295
I thought it was the beginning of the end,
but it wasn't.
1906
01:25:34,379 --> 01:25:37,757
Only one of those players ended up
appealing their suspension.
1907
01:25:37,841 --> 01:25:39,175
Alex Rodriguez.
1908
01:25:39,259 --> 01:25:41,511
He promised to fight to the bitter end,
1909
01:25:41,594 --> 01:25:42,929
proclaimed his innocence
1910
01:25:43,012 --> 01:25:45,181
and said he would beat
Bud Selig in arbitration.
1911
01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:46,808
[Bosch] Even after a suspension,
1912
01:25:46,891 --> 01:25:48,726
I mean, he basically said,
1913
01:25:48,810 --> 01:25:51,813
"No, fuck you, I'm not suspended,"
and he kept on playing.
1914
01:25:51,896 --> 01:25:55,441
[laughs] He played that night in Chicago
and he got booed.
1915
01:25:55,525 --> 01:25:57,986
[commentator] With a 211-game suspension
hanging over his head,
1916
01:25:58,069 --> 01:25:59,320
that he is going to appeal,
1917
01:25:59,404 --> 01:26:03,074
Alex Rodriguez, about to take
his first at-bat of the season.
1918
01:26:03,158 --> 01:26:05,451
So why don't you listen
to the reception he'll get from the crowd.
1919
01:26:06,744 --> 01:26:10,540
[announcer] ...the third baseman,
number 13, Alex Rodriguez.
1920
01:26:11,457 --> 01:26:13,793
[crowd booing]
1921
01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:20,300
[Bosch] I remember when he went
to go play Boston.
1922
01:26:20,383 --> 01:26:22,427
[commentator] He hears
a whole lot of booing,
1923
01:26:22,510 --> 01:26:24,387
from the fans here at Fenway.
1924
01:26:24,470 --> 01:26:27,015
[Bosch] Everybody was talking about it.
"Which pitcher's gonna...
1925
01:26:27,098 --> 01:26:28,391
You know, who's gonna hit him?"
1926
01:26:28,474 --> 01:26:29,684
I think the Boston Red Sox
1927
01:26:29,767 --> 01:26:32,437
put Ryan Dempster on that mound
specifically for that.
1928
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,106
I said, "Oh, for sure,
Dempster, for sure."
1929
01:26:35,190 --> 01:26:36,524
He's gonna go straight for the head.
1930
01:26:38,276 --> 01:26:40,904
[commentator 1] And that one inside,
it almost hit him.
1931
01:26:40,987 --> 01:26:42,614
[commentator 2] I had a feeling
that was coming.
1932
01:26:42,697 --> 01:26:44,532
[Bosch] We were betting on,
"Is it gonna be the first pitch,
1933
01:26:44,616 --> 01:26:46,034
or the second pitch or the third pitch?"
1934
01:26:46,826 --> 01:26:47,994
[commentator 1] Inside, he hit him.
1935
01:26:48,703 --> 01:26:51,414
[commentator 2] Had your chance,
the first pitch, to send a message.
1936
01:26:51,497 --> 01:26:53,416
Don't send it on the fourth one.
1937
01:26:55,418 --> 01:26:57,337
-[interviewer speaking]
-[Rodriguez] Who?
1938
01:26:58,296 --> 01:27:00,423
I'm the wrong guy to be asking
about suspension.
1939
01:27:00,506 --> 01:27:01,841
[reporters laughing]
1940
01:27:02,717 --> 01:27:06,512
[reporter] MLB's case centers on this man.
Anthony Bosch.
1941
01:27:06,596 --> 01:27:08,848
[Fischer] They had to,
basically, clean him up
1942
01:27:08,932 --> 01:27:11,226
and make him as presentable
as they possibly could
1943
01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:13,228
for any jury or any media
that was gonna say,
1944
01:27:13,311 --> 01:27:15,188
"Why would you sidle up with this guy?
1945
01:27:15,271 --> 01:27:17,565
How dependable is this guy?
How credible is this guy?"
1946
01:27:17,649 --> 01:27:20,818
'Cause you know that's the route
that Alex was gonna take.
1947
01:27:20,902 --> 01:27:23,863
"Why would you believe MLB
siding with this guy?"
1948
01:27:23,947 --> 01:27:26,241
He's a scumbag. Drug dealer, coke addict,
1949
01:27:26,324 --> 01:27:28,326
bum, bad son,
1950
01:27:28,409 --> 01:27:31,663
bad father, bad brother, bad everything.
1951
01:27:31,746 --> 01:27:35,833
[reporter] Is Bosch prepared to testify
that he gave Rodriguez PEDs?
1952
01:27:35,917 --> 01:27:40,505
It would be a different account
of what he told ESPN last April.
1953
01:27:40,588 --> 01:27:42,757
I don't know anything about
performance-enhancing drugs.
1954
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:45,551
[reporter continues] That was then.
One of Bosch's former friends,
1955
01:27:45,635 --> 01:27:50,181
Bobby Miller, suspects why Bosch
may have now changed his story.
1956
01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:52,183
And he told me that
they're paying him $5 million.
1957
01:27:52,267 --> 01:27:53,601
That they paid him.
1958
01:27:53,685 --> 01:27:55,353
-[interviewer 1] Who's "They"?
-Major League Baseball.
1959
01:27:55,436 --> 01:27:57,522
[interviewer 2] Alex Rodriguez
claims that you paid him,
1960
01:27:57,605 --> 01:27:59,190
essentially, $5 million.
1961
01:27:59,274 --> 01:28:01,776
There is absolutely
no basis for that claim.
1962
01:28:01,859 --> 01:28:03,778
It's just absolutely untrue.
1963
01:28:04,779 --> 01:28:07,991
I have it right here. I have it, um...
1964
01:28:08,074 --> 01:28:09,367
You want me to read it?
1965
01:28:10,034 --> 01:28:13,538
"The professional protection,
they spent...
1966
01:28:14,330 --> 01:28:19,752
$1,456,176.
1967
01:28:19,836 --> 01:28:24,465
The law office of Samuel Rabin
and the law office of Susy Ribero-Ayala
1968
01:28:24,549 --> 01:28:25,633
was $766,000...
1969
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:30,054
The law office of Pinera-Vazquez
was $574..."
1970
01:28:30,179 --> 01:28:32,765
[indistinct overlapping reading]
1971
01:28:38,229 --> 01:28:42,984
I believe that comes out
close to about $4 million.
1972
01:28:46,112 --> 01:28:49,407
We were about a month away
from arbitration. It was my birthday.
1973
01:28:49,490 --> 01:28:51,117
And I was in New York.
1974
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,453
This whole thing was very stressful to me.
1975
01:28:53,536 --> 01:28:55,913
You know, an arbitration.
I've never been to an arbitration.
1976
01:28:55,997 --> 01:28:59,584
So not only do I need a bottle here,
I need something else beside a bottle.
1977
01:28:59,667 --> 01:29:00,877
[chuckling] And I take a bump.
1978
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:04,422
The birthday dinner turned
into an all-night party.
1979
01:29:04,505 --> 01:29:06,466
Drugs everywhere, paraphernalia.
1980
01:29:06,549 --> 01:29:10,636
We had to bring in a cleaner
to clean up the mess. [laughs]
1981
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:12,597
Well, Major League Baseball
freaked out.
1982
01:29:12,722 --> 01:29:15,391
It's like, here's our star witness
and the guy, you know... [laughs]
1983
01:29:15,475 --> 01:29:16,893
He's partying like a rock star.
1984
01:29:16,976 --> 01:29:19,270
Not like a rock star, a whole rock band.
1985
01:29:19,354 --> 01:29:21,689
And in a way, you could say,
MLB paid for his coke habit.
1986
01:29:21,773 --> 01:29:26,402
He's a sleazy drug dealer.
It's his word against A-Rod's word.
1987
01:29:26,486 --> 01:29:29,906
We can't dismiss Bosch
when there's a lot of evidence.
1988
01:29:29,989 --> 01:29:33,117
Meaning other individuals that got caught
because of him, too.
1989
01:29:37,372 --> 01:29:40,750
[Bosch] The first day I got there,
there was a huge crowd outside,
1990
01:29:40,833 --> 01:29:44,253
in front of Major League Baseball,
their offices in Park Avenue.
1991
01:29:44,337 --> 01:29:46,214
[chanting] A-Rod.
1992
01:29:46,881 --> 01:29:50,593
[Bosch] I remember there was signs like,
"Tony Bosch, drug dealer."
1993
01:29:50,676 --> 01:29:53,638
[Elfrink] If you looked a little closer,
the protest was sort of strange.
1994
01:29:53,721 --> 01:29:57,183
[Bosch] And I started seeing
the same people with the same sign.
1995
01:29:57,266 --> 01:30:00,812
Then I started noticing that the signs
were written with the same handwriting.
1996
01:30:00,895 --> 01:30:03,356
[Elfrink] They had sort of weird
messages like,
1997
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:06,025
"Bosch is a liar," and "Fire Selig."
1998
01:30:06,109 --> 01:30:09,904
That just seems like it would be hard
to believe a fan had put this together.
1999
01:30:09,987 --> 01:30:13,491
[Bosch] It turned out that Alex
had hired all these people
2000
01:30:13,574 --> 01:30:16,744
to stand outside with these signs,
2001
01:30:16,828 --> 01:30:19,956
and the payment was gonna be pizza.
2002
01:30:20,039 --> 01:30:23,209
Some guy said, "Hey, when are they
gonna bring us the pizza?"
2003
01:30:23,292 --> 01:30:26,087
You know, "We're here because of pizza."
2004
01:30:27,296 --> 01:30:30,800
[reporter] Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz
will hear both sides.
2005
01:30:32,218 --> 01:30:34,262
[Bosch] I was anxious, and I was nervous.
2006
01:30:34,345 --> 01:30:39,267
You know, I've never been through
anything like this in my life.
2007
01:30:39,350 --> 01:30:41,269
I had nothing to relate...
2008
01:30:41,352 --> 01:30:43,187
I didn't know what the hell to expect.
2009
01:30:43,271 --> 01:30:46,440
My attorney, he said, "You know what,
why don't you do something?
2010
01:30:46,524 --> 01:30:48,067
Just stick with the truth."
2011
01:30:49,152 --> 01:30:51,654
I thought he was gonna come up
with something better than that.
2012
01:30:53,114 --> 01:30:56,075
[Gomez] Tony Bosch provided
far more than baseball expected.
2013
01:30:56,159 --> 01:30:59,787
Texts, E-mails, phone records, voicemails,
2014
01:31:00,663 --> 01:31:03,291
establishing what baseball believes
they can prove
2015
01:31:03,374 --> 01:31:07,920
was a long-standing relationship
where Bosch treated A-Rod,
2016
01:31:08,004 --> 01:31:10,006
would go to his home to inject him,
2017
01:31:10,089 --> 01:31:12,592
and his efforts to obstruct
this investigation.
2018
01:31:13,885 --> 01:31:16,095
[Bosch] I remember sitting
in front of Alex.
2019
01:31:16,179 --> 01:31:20,725
He would make faces, funny faces,
and he would try to make me laugh.
2020
01:31:20,808 --> 01:31:23,019
He would go like this to me, like this,
2021
01:31:23,102 --> 01:31:26,189
and then, you know, like,
trying to play peekaboo.
2022
01:31:26,272 --> 01:31:28,149
You know, like if you were five years old.
2023
01:31:28,232 --> 01:31:29,984
You know, there was a point in time
where I had to laugh.
2024
01:31:30,067 --> 01:31:32,278
And then the arbitrator even told him,
he goes, "What are you doing?"
2025
01:31:32,361 --> 01:31:34,822
And he says, "Yeah, what?
I'm not doing anything."
2026
01:31:34,906 --> 01:31:37,033
If he wasn't a multimillionaire,
you'd call him crazy,
2027
01:31:37,116 --> 01:31:38,826
but, you know,
we'll call him eccentric for now.
2028
01:31:39,952 --> 01:31:43,414
[reporter] As Alex Rodriguez
fights his unprecedented PED ban
2029
01:31:43,497 --> 01:31:44,790
from Major League Baseball,
2030
01:31:44,874 --> 01:31:46,709
his hearing continues in New York.
2031
01:31:47,293 --> 01:31:51,923
His attorneys today opened
a broadside against MLB, filing suit.
2032
01:31:52,006 --> 01:31:56,260
Among the allegations,
Baseball is practicing vigilante justice.
2033
01:31:56,344 --> 01:32:01,599
That Baseball investigators paid
an unnamed person $150,000
2034
01:32:01,682 --> 01:32:04,101
for documents stolen
from a former employee
2035
01:32:04,185 --> 01:32:05,519
of the Biogenesis lab.
2036
01:32:05,603 --> 01:32:09,482
Documents used against Rodriguez
to suspend him.
2037
01:32:09,565 --> 01:32:12,693
[Bosch] That following Monday,
I think the script flipped,
2038
01:32:12,777 --> 01:32:14,487
and then they were questioning Alex.
2039
01:32:14,570 --> 01:32:17,448
He couldn't answer the questions.
Obviously, he was guilty as sin.
2040
01:32:17,531 --> 01:32:20,493
Almost like a little kid,
"I don't wanna talk about that!"
2041
01:32:20,576 --> 01:32:22,912
He kicked the lawyer's briefcase
2042
01:32:22,995 --> 01:32:25,790
and told Manfred that he was full of shit,
2043
01:32:25,873 --> 01:32:29,335
and he's not answering these lies
and these ridiculous questions.
2044
01:32:29,418 --> 01:32:33,714
[reporter] Rodriguez stormed out,
with a parting comment to Rob Manfred.
2045
01:32:33,798 --> 01:32:39,887
He said to me, "Rob, this is, um,
BS, and you know it."
2046
01:32:39,971 --> 01:32:42,848
[Bosch] And he takes off,
jumps in his car,
2047
01:32:42,932 --> 01:32:45,393
and has his driver take him down
to the radio station.
2048
01:32:45,476 --> 01:32:47,144
[radio interviewer] A-Rod,
tell me what happened today?
2049
01:32:47,228 --> 01:32:50,606
I lost my mind, I banged a table
and kicked... [chuckles]
2050
01:32:50,690 --> 01:32:53,067
...a briefcase and slammed out of the room
2051
01:32:53,150 --> 01:32:56,112
and just felt like this system...
I knew it was restricted
2052
01:32:56,195 --> 01:32:58,531
and I knew it wasn't fair,
2053
01:32:58,614 --> 01:33:00,700
but what we saw today, it was disgusting.
2054
01:33:00,783 --> 01:33:03,744
If I gave Bosch $5 million,
he would say whatever I want, too.
2055
01:33:03,828 --> 01:33:05,955
[radio interviewer] Did you do anything
that they accused you of doing?
2056
01:33:06,038 --> 01:33:07,206
-No. Nothing.
-Nothing?
2057
01:33:07,290 --> 01:33:10,126
[Rodriguez] This is my whole life.
My legacy. I'm part of history.
2058
01:33:10,209 --> 01:33:12,253
So if you're gonna try
to destroy all of that,
2059
01:33:12,336 --> 01:33:13,587
I'm saying no.
2060
01:33:13,671 --> 01:33:16,382
You tell me why I should serve one inning.
2061
01:33:16,465 --> 01:33:18,676
[Bosch] And I even said to myself,
"What a shame
2062
01:33:18,759 --> 01:33:21,345
that it had to come down to this."
You know?
2063
01:33:21,429 --> 01:33:25,474
He's out. A record suspension tonight
for baseball star Alex Rodriguez,
2064
01:33:25,558 --> 01:33:28,144
the long fall for the one-time
golden boy of baseball,
2065
01:33:28,227 --> 01:33:29,687
the highest-paid player in the sport.
2066
01:33:29,770 --> 01:33:33,858
The suspension was reduced to 162 games
2067
01:33:33,941 --> 01:33:38,237
down from the 211 originally given
by commissioner Bud Selig.
2068
01:33:38,321 --> 01:33:41,449
[reporter 1] He could've been
the Michael Jordan of baseball.
2069
01:33:41,532 --> 01:33:43,534
[reporter 2] He pretty much can forget
the Hall of Fame.
2070
01:33:43,617 --> 01:33:46,787
Who looks worse?
A-Rod or Major League Baseball?
2071
01:33:46,871 --> 01:33:48,956
Nobody looks worse than A-Rod.
2072
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:50,958
Suspend him? I say fire him.
2073
01:33:51,042 --> 01:33:52,460
I think they've had enough of Alex.
2074
01:33:52,543 --> 01:33:55,588
-The Yankees are a real team.
-A-Rod is real?
2075
01:33:55,671 --> 01:33:57,089
Okay, you got me on that one.
2076
01:33:57,173 --> 01:33:59,091
-Alex Rodriguez?
-Fuck that guy.
2077
01:33:59,175 --> 01:34:00,593
[man] You should've shot A-Rod.
2078
01:34:00,676 --> 01:34:02,970
My attorneys and I are suing
Major League Baseball
2079
01:34:03,054 --> 01:34:04,430
for gross misconduct.
2080
01:34:04,513 --> 01:34:08,100
We're also suing the player's union
for failing trick Major League Baseball.
2081
01:34:08,184 --> 01:34:11,145
Um, I'm also suing steroids
for being inside of me.
2082
01:34:11,228 --> 01:34:12,271
[audience laughing]
2083
01:34:12,355 --> 01:34:15,983
And, uh, I'm suing Jackie Robinson
for breaking into the major leagues,
2084
01:34:16,067 --> 01:34:18,694
which really led to this whole situation
in the first place.
2085
01:34:18,778 --> 01:34:20,363
[host] Dear Alex Rodriguez,
2086
01:34:20,446 --> 01:34:22,823
the game is over. Nobody has your back.
2087
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,075
Nobody wants you back.
2088
01:34:24,158 --> 01:34:26,452
Not your team,
not the players association,
2089
01:34:26,535 --> 01:34:28,412
not the fans, no one.
2090
01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:30,039
Go back to your mirror,
2091
01:34:30,164 --> 01:34:32,875
your centaur painting
and your stacks of money,
2092
01:34:32,958 --> 01:34:35,586
and never ever let us see you again.
2093
01:34:35,669 --> 01:34:37,213
[Bosch] The state attorney investigated,
2094
01:34:37,296 --> 01:34:39,173
but they investigated
on the child support,
2095
01:34:39,256 --> 01:34:43,344
they investigated on
the professional licensing situation.
2096
01:34:43,427 --> 01:34:45,096
They investigated my clinic.
2097
01:34:45,179 --> 01:34:49,308
They investigated,
I believe, for insurance,
2098
01:34:49,392 --> 01:34:51,727
you know, issues or fraud, or whatever.
2099
01:34:51,811 --> 01:34:53,938
And at the end of the day,
they didn't find anything.
2100
01:34:54,563 --> 01:34:56,524
I couldn't trust the organization
I was working with
2101
01:34:56,607 --> 01:34:59,360
at that point in time. And I had
very good reason to believe that...
2102
01:34:59,443 --> 01:35:03,697
Intel that I had, up in Tallahassee,
some of the figureheads,
2103
01:35:03,781 --> 01:35:07,284
wanted to see this investigation
go by the wayside quickly.
2104
01:35:07,368 --> 01:35:09,328
I found out through my supervisor
2105
01:35:09,412 --> 01:35:12,123
that, "Hey, guess what?
You know, this case is over.
2106
01:35:12,206 --> 01:35:15,668
You're gonna go ahead
and submit what you have..."
2107
01:35:15,751 --> 01:35:17,169
And I had a whole bunch of stuff.
2108
01:35:17,753 --> 01:35:19,755
"Is that something that y'all..."
2109
01:35:19,839 --> 01:35:23,217
He said, "No, they just want
something very brief.
2110
01:35:23,300 --> 01:35:24,593
Close shop. Let it go."
2111
01:35:25,302 --> 01:35:27,680
And that's the thing that,
you know, over and over,
2112
01:35:27,763 --> 01:35:29,223
you can take a chance here in Florida.
2113
01:35:29,306 --> 01:35:31,308
More times than not,
it's gonna pay off for you.
2114
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:34,270
And it sure did for Anthony Bosch.
2115
01:35:34,353 --> 01:35:37,314
[Bosch] They fined me $5,000
2116
01:35:37,398 --> 01:35:41,694
in one of my clinics
for not having a licensed physician.
2117
01:35:41,777 --> 01:35:43,529
[Hill] From what I understand,
they pleaded that down
2118
01:35:43,612 --> 01:35:45,072
to some nominal amount,
2119
01:35:45,156 --> 01:35:46,991
you know, a slap on the wrist.
2120
01:35:47,074 --> 01:35:49,160
And for a time there,
2121
01:35:49,243 --> 01:35:52,913
I really thought that, "Okay, great,
at least I dodged that bullet."
2122
01:35:53,747 --> 01:35:56,459
The jail-time bullet,
or, you know, the prison bullet.
2123
01:35:56,542 --> 01:36:00,129
But I think that after
the 60 Minutes interview,
2124
01:36:00,212 --> 01:36:02,548
the feds picked up the case.
2125
01:36:02,631 --> 01:36:06,844
Tonight, you are going to hear details
of the evidence for the first time.
2126
01:36:06,927 --> 01:36:09,180
Much of it from Anthony Bosch,
2127
01:36:09,263 --> 01:36:12,224
who ran a secret doping practice
for pro athletes.
2128
01:36:12,308 --> 01:36:14,852
I was swayed into doing 60 Minutes
2129
01:36:14,935 --> 01:36:17,605
and how important it was
for Major League Baseball.
2130
01:36:17,688 --> 01:36:20,191
I didn't really want to disappoint
Major League Baseball.
2131
01:36:20,274 --> 01:36:22,276
We had come...
You know, we were working together.
2132
01:36:22,359 --> 01:36:26,030
I was very good at what I did.
I had a track record.
2133
01:36:26,113 --> 01:36:29,992
I had been doing this for many years.
2134
01:36:30,826 --> 01:36:34,038
If you had the knowledge that I had,
the experience that I had,
2135
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:38,000
and you know the truth
about the testing and the flaws,
2136
01:36:39,376 --> 01:36:41,045
it was almost a cakewalk, actually.
2137
01:36:41,128 --> 01:36:42,588
-A cakewalk?
-Yeah.
2138
01:36:43,255 --> 01:36:44,924
-To beat the system?
-To beat the system.
2139
01:36:45,007 --> 01:36:46,509
-To cheat?
-To cheat.
2140
01:36:46,884 --> 01:36:50,179
One year to the day
that A-Rod got suspended,
2141
01:36:50,262 --> 01:36:53,557
I get arrested by the DEA.
2142
01:36:53,641 --> 01:36:56,602
[reporter] Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch
has surrendered
2143
01:36:56,685 --> 01:36:58,604
to the DEA this morning.
2144
01:36:58,687 --> 01:37:01,732
[man] Charges have been filed
against Anthony Bosch,
2145
01:37:01,815 --> 01:37:04,944
one of the original founders
of Biogenesis of America,
2146
01:37:05,027 --> 01:37:08,155
and six other individuals
for their alleged involvement
2147
01:37:08,239 --> 01:37:12,660
in the illegal distribution
of performance-enhancing drugs
2148
01:37:12,743 --> 01:37:17,081
to minors, to professional athletes,
and to others.
2149
01:37:17,164 --> 01:37:20,167
Tony Bosch is not a doctor.
Tony Bosch is a drug dealer.
2150
01:37:20,251 --> 01:37:21,752
[man] In addition to Anthony Bosch,
2151
01:37:21,835 --> 01:37:26,173
Jorge "Ugi" Velazquez, a distributor
of black market testosterone
2152
01:37:26,257 --> 01:37:28,008
and a Bosch supplier.
2153
01:37:28,092 --> 01:37:30,636
[Elfrink] Turns out the prosecutors
weren't all that interested
2154
01:37:30,719 --> 01:37:33,973
in the drugs he sold
to Major League Baseball players.
2155
01:37:34,056 --> 01:37:36,600
He really ended up taking a fall
for all those high schoolers.
2156
01:37:37,476 --> 01:37:40,271
The dozens of high school athletes
who would come in with their parents
2157
01:37:40,354 --> 01:37:43,857
and buy steroids and human growth hormone
to try to get ahead
2158
01:37:43,941 --> 01:37:45,276
on their school teams.
2159
01:37:45,359 --> 01:37:47,861
It was an incredibly dangerous
and stupid thing to do.
2160
01:37:47,945 --> 01:37:50,781
And that's what Tony Bosch
ended up going to federal prison for.
2161
01:37:50,864 --> 01:37:53,534
[reporter] Anthony Bosch,
the former owner of Biogenesis,
2162
01:37:53,617 --> 01:37:57,496
sentenced to four years in federal prison
today for his guilty plea,
2163
01:37:57,580 --> 01:38:01,292
back in October, to conspiracy
to distribute testosterone
2164
01:38:01,375 --> 01:38:04,753
to athletes from the now closed clinic
in Coral Gables.
2165
01:38:04,837 --> 01:38:10,551
I'm very sorry for all the harm
that this has caused everybody involved,
2166
01:38:10,634 --> 01:38:12,761
my family, my friends.
2167
01:38:13,345 --> 01:38:15,389
[speaking Spanish]
2168
01:38:17,474 --> 01:38:19,893
[man] Judge Darrin Gayles,
in giving Bosch no leniency
2169
01:38:19,977 --> 01:38:22,187
for his cooperation
with Major League Baseball,
2170
01:38:22,271 --> 01:38:25,149
cited the fact that Bosch,
in his drug distribution ring,
2171
01:38:25,232 --> 01:38:27,693
had injected teenagers with PEDs.
2172
01:38:27,776 --> 01:38:30,321
Bosch also had his bail revoked
four months ago
2173
01:38:30,404 --> 01:38:32,781
after testing positive for cocaine.
2174
01:38:33,365 --> 01:38:36,702
The people who were responsible for this,
2175
01:38:36,785 --> 01:38:39,580
were they held accountable?
Not all of them.
2176
01:38:39,663 --> 01:38:41,415
These were people who were fall guys,
2177
01:38:41,498 --> 01:38:43,334
as far as I'm concerned,
that got arrested.
2178
01:38:47,046 --> 01:38:48,213
[camera clicking]
2179
01:40:10,879 --> 01:40:13,257
[Gomez] I have a son playing
Minor League ball.
2180
01:40:13,340 --> 01:40:17,261
If he is going up against roided-out guys,
2181
01:40:17,344 --> 01:40:19,638
he is at a distinct disadvantage.
2182
01:40:19,722 --> 01:40:23,600
If he's not good enough
because the other player is simply better,
2183
01:40:23,684 --> 01:40:25,728
that's fine. You can live with that.
2184
01:40:25,811 --> 01:40:30,482
But if somebody is roided out
and that's why they're succeeding,
2185
01:40:30,566 --> 01:40:32,860
and beating you, and all of a sudden,
2186
01:40:32,943 --> 01:40:35,112
you're out of the game
because your numbers
2187
01:40:35,195 --> 01:40:37,823
have suffered because of that,
that's wrong.
2188
01:40:38,782 --> 01:40:40,325
[Fischer] The fact
that University of Miami
2189
01:40:40,409 --> 01:40:42,745
didn't even want to address this,
2190
01:40:42,828 --> 01:40:45,748
the fact that his name
is still on the side of that stadium,
2191
01:40:45,831 --> 01:40:48,500
Alex Rodriguez Park,
2192
01:40:48,584 --> 01:40:51,336
what message in the world
does that send to any student
2193
01:40:51,420 --> 01:40:52,838
that goes to that university?
2194
01:41:01,597 --> 01:41:04,975
[Bosch] There's a saying that says,
"Never meet your heroes
2195
01:41:05,058 --> 01:41:06,810
because they'll break your heart."
2196
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:09,563
And I think that's basically
what happened.
2197
01:41:09,646 --> 01:41:10,898
Yes, I still love the game.
2198
01:41:12,232 --> 01:41:15,152
I'll still watch a baseball game,
2199
01:41:15,235 --> 01:41:19,072
and I'll coach from my seat
at home, you know.
2200
01:41:19,156 --> 01:41:23,619
But you know, it took that mystique out.
2201
01:41:23,702 --> 01:41:25,370
It took that mystery away.
2202
01:41:25,454 --> 01:41:27,164
[Elfrink] In hindsight,
it really is incredible
2203
01:41:27,247 --> 01:41:30,793
that the biggest steroid scandal
in sports history
2204
01:41:30,876 --> 01:41:33,754
exploded so quickly
over such a tiny amount of money.
2205
01:41:33,837 --> 01:41:37,758
I mean, it was really
one month's worth of time over $4,000
2206
01:41:37,841 --> 01:41:39,301
that sparked this entire thing.
2207
01:41:39,384 --> 01:41:42,679
I mean, it's not the most
believable story.
2208
01:41:42,805 --> 01:41:46,016
But then again, I couldn't...
You know, you can't make this shit up.
2209
01:41:48,393 --> 01:41:51,772
[boys singing] 'Cause it's one, two,
three strikes, you're out
2210
01:41:51,855 --> 01:41:57,528
At the old ball game