It happens often that when sportspeople test positive for any prohibited products, they try to prove that they have never used any banned medication intentionally. They are looking for various ways to manifest that they are not guilty. They do a lot in order to avoid suspensions and/or other sanctions. Here is a situation.
The baseball player Melky Cabrera tested positive for testosterone. Of course, he was sentenced to a ban. Like other sportspersons he decided to find a way to prove his innocence and avoid the suspension.
Numerous doping sportspersons who are caught say that they have applied a dietary supplement that resulted in positive for certain prohibited substance. Although several athletes may have taken fake dietary supplements, many athletes administer steroids and choose this way of defense because it works in many situations.
So, Melky Cabrera claimed that he had taken a dietary supplement that led to his positive for testosterone. Actually, it was a lie. Trying to prevent the 50-game suspension, he also created a web site and posted a fictitious supplement and advertisements which induced 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), was the person that created the site.
But the hoax turned out to be unsuccessful. The MLB exposed Melky Cabrera and Juan Nunez. Thus, the baseball player was enforced to serve the suspension.
The ACES had also problems. 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 individuals confirmed that they were not implicated in the creation of the web site and the lie which was invented by Melky Cabrera and Juan Nunez. Juan Nunez also confirmed that Seth and Sam Levinson had not been involved in this hoax.
The case is still investigated by the Food and Drug Administration. It is unclear yet whether other individuals would be also prosecuted and sanctioned for the hoax.
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