It happens often that when sportspersons test positive for any prohibited products, they try to prove that they have never taken any banned preparation intentionally. They find different ways to display that they are innocent. They do a lot in order to prevent suspensions and/or other sanctions. Here is a case.
The professional baseball player Melky Cabrera tested positive for the anabolic steroid testosterone. Undoubtedly, he was sentenced to a 50-game suspension. Like other sportspeople he decided to find a way to prove his innocence and avoid the suspension.
Many doping sportspersons who are caught claim that they have applied a dietary supplement which led to positive for certain banned substance. However some sportspersons may have taken fake dietary supplements, many athletes take steroids and choose this method of defense because it works in many cases.
So, Melky Cabrera affirmed that he had taken a dietary supplement that caused his positive for testosterone. Actually, it was a lie. Trying to avoid the 50-game suspension, he also created a web site and posted a fictitious supplement and advertisements that promoted selling it. The supplement didn’t exist in reality. It was just a lie of Melky Cabrera and his associates in order to defend the baseball player.
Juan Nunez, a paid consultant for Athletes’ Career Enhanced and Secured Incorporated (ACES), created the web site.
But the hoax turned out to be unsuccessful. The MLB could expose Melky Cabrera and Juan Nunez. Thus, the baseball player was enforced to serve the suspension.
The ACES got troubles as well. Since Juan Nunez has been a consultant for ACES, the agency and Seth and Sam Levinson were accused of involving in the hoax. But these persons confirmed that they were not implicated in the creation of the web site and the hoax which was thought out by Melky Cabrera and Juan Nunez. Juan Nunez also confirmed that Seth and Sam Levinson had nothing to do with this defense.
The case is still investigated by the Food and Drug Administration. It is not clear yet whether other persons would be also prosecuted and punished for the lie.
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