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http://www.news-gazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Number=19073
Local chemist's lab, home raided
By THE NEWS-GAZETTE AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
© 2005 THE NEWS-GAZETTE
Published Online October 1, 2005
The owner of Proviant Technologies Inc., a Champaign company raided by federal agents investigating a sports doping scandal, is cooperating with authorities and expects to be absolved of any wrongdoing.
Federal agents raided the laboratory and home of Patrick Arnold, a Champaign chemist who authorities believe created one of the steroids at the heart of the BALCO sports doping scandal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
"We are cooperating with authorities to ensure that this matter is properly investigated," said Julie Ohlsson, the company's public relations officer, in a statement Friday to The News-Gazette.
"We are confident that their findings will ultimately absolve Patrick of any suggestion of wrongdoing."
Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday searched both Proviant and Arnold's home at One Main in Champaign, the San Francisco newspaper reported, citing sources who wished not to be identified.
"Patrick has a respected reputation as a chemist in the nutritional supplement industry," Ohlsson's statement to The News-Gazette said. "He has been instrumental in pioneering a wide range of popular dietary products, including fat-loss products, protein powders and cellular energizers.
"While we do not wish to try this case in the press, I would like to underscore that Patrick has always sought to conduct his business in a professional manner and with strict adherence to the law. We look forward to assisting authorities in resolving this matter," the statement said.
Lt. Ed Ogle of the Champaign County Sheriff's Office confirmed to The News-Gazette that deputies assisted in the execution of a search warrant, but he said he had no knowledge of what the warrant was about. He declined any further comment.
Sharon Paul, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's Central Illinois Division in Springfield, also declined comment. "I can't confirm or deny anything," she said Friday.
BALCO founder Victor Conte and Vice President James Valente identified Arnold as the source of a once-undetectable steroid called "the clear." Conte, Valente, track coach Remi Korchemny and Greg Anderson – the longtime friend and personal trainer of Giants slugger Barry Bonds – pleaded guilty to distributing steroids to elite athletes and will be sentenced next month.
Two sources with knowledge of the latest raids also told the Chronicle that the San Francisco grand jury is still hearing testimony in the BALCO case, suggesting the possibility of more indictments to come.
Federal agents raided the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative two years ago, carting away boxloads of documents.
The Chronicle said it obtained a copy of a 2001 e-mail exchange between Arnold and Conte that appeared to indicate Arnold was sending the BALCO chief a version of a newly designed steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG. The drug, administered by placing a couple of drops under the tongue, was designed to be undetectable.
"What I am sending you today is a small sample, about 5 ccs, of the supplement," Arnold wrote to Conte, adding there "should be enough for experimental testing. 2.5-7.5 milligram (whatever that comes out to in cc's or drops), under the tongue should be a decent dosing range."
The Chronicle reported, based on leaked grand jury transcripts, that Bonds testified he used "the clear" as well as another substance called "the cream" but didn't know they were substances prosecutors have identified as steroids.
Within the supplement industry, Arnold was dubbed the "father of prohormones" and was famous for popularizing androstenedione, or andro, in the American market. That substance, which baseball slugger Mark McGwire acknowledged using during the 1998 season when he broke baseball's single-season home run record, has since been banned by Congress as a steroid precursor.
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http://www.news-gazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Number=19073
Local chemist's lab, home raided
By THE NEWS-GAZETTE AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
© 2005 THE NEWS-GAZETTE
Published Online October 1, 2005
The owner of Proviant Technologies Inc., a Champaign company raided by federal agents investigating a sports doping scandal, is cooperating with authorities and expects to be absolved of any wrongdoing.
Federal agents raided the laboratory and home of Patrick Arnold, a Champaign chemist who authorities believe created one of the steroids at the heart of the BALCO sports doping scandal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
"We are cooperating with authorities to ensure that this matter is properly investigated," said Julie Ohlsson, the company's public relations officer, in a statement Friday to The News-Gazette.
"We are confident that their findings will ultimately absolve Patrick of any suggestion of wrongdoing."
Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday searched both Proviant and Arnold's home at One Main in Champaign, the San Francisco newspaper reported, citing sources who wished not to be identified.
"Patrick has a respected reputation as a chemist in the nutritional supplement industry," Ohlsson's statement to The News-Gazette said. "He has been instrumental in pioneering a wide range of popular dietary products, including fat-loss products, protein powders and cellular energizers.
"While we do not wish to try this case in the press, I would like to underscore that Patrick has always sought to conduct his business in a professional manner and with strict adherence to the law. We look forward to assisting authorities in resolving this matter," the statement said.
Lt. Ed Ogle of the Champaign County Sheriff's Office confirmed to The News-Gazette that deputies assisted in the execution of a search warrant, but he said he had no knowledge of what the warrant was about. He declined any further comment.
Sharon Paul, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's Central Illinois Division in Springfield, also declined comment. "I can't confirm or deny anything," she said Friday.
BALCO founder Victor Conte and Vice President James Valente identified Arnold as the source of a once-undetectable steroid called "the clear." Conte, Valente, track coach Remi Korchemny and Greg Anderson – the longtime friend and personal trainer of Giants slugger Barry Bonds – pleaded guilty to distributing steroids to elite athletes and will be sentenced next month.
Two sources with knowledge of the latest raids also told the Chronicle that the San Francisco grand jury is still hearing testimony in the BALCO case, suggesting the possibility of more indictments to come.
Federal agents raided the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative two years ago, carting away boxloads of documents.
The Chronicle said it obtained a copy of a 2001 e-mail exchange between Arnold and Conte that appeared to indicate Arnold was sending the BALCO chief a version of a newly designed steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG. The drug, administered by placing a couple of drops under the tongue, was designed to be undetectable.
"What I am sending you today is a small sample, about 5 ccs, of the supplement," Arnold wrote to Conte, adding there "should be enough for experimental testing. 2.5-7.5 milligram (whatever that comes out to in cc's or drops), under the tongue should be a decent dosing range."
The Chronicle reported, based on leaked grand jury transcripts, that Bonds testified he used "the clear" as well as another substance called "the cream" but didn't know they were substances prosecutors have identified as steroids.
Within the supplement industry, Arnold was dubbed the "father of prohormones" and was famous for popularizing androstenedione, or andro, in the American market. That substance, which baseball slugger Mark McGwire acknowledged using during the 1998 season when he broke baseball's single-season home run record, has since been banned by Congress as a steroid precursor.
[email protected]
TRAIN, EAT, LIVE LIKE A ANIMAL!!
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