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Babo BALCO soap already beginning
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin December 23, 2006 |
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A former executive director for the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame, Larry McCormick has told the FBI that, Troy Ellerman, a defense attorney in Colorado Springs, gave out information from the 2003 Grand Jury testimony by San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds, to the San Francisco Chronicle investigative reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. FBI spokesman Joe Schadler said that the FBI has started an investigation on the allegations that Ellerman might be responsible for the leak, as Schadler told The Associated Press. Earlier this year the Chronicle reported that BALCO founder Victor Conte was the source of the grand jury leak. Turns out Ellerman has been Conte's defense lawyer and McCormick is naming Ellerman as the source. In the book "Game of shadows" by Fainaru-Wada and Williams they wrote that Bonds had testified in December 2003 during grand jury testimony that Bonds had used "the Cream" and "the Clear" not knowing they contained undetectable steroids which was distributed by incarcerated personal trainer Greg Anderson. Anderson had distributed "the Cream" and "the Clear" to several other Major Leagues, pro and Olympic athletes. Both Fainaru-Wada and Williams are facing 18 months in prison possibly in Dublin Correctional Facility the same facility that Anderson is incarcerated in now. U.S. Superior Court Judge William Alsup had ordered the incarceration of Anderson and the same is expected on the Fainaru-Wada and Williams’s case that refuses to reveal the leak and are facing contempt of court charges. Fainaru-Wada and Williams was asked by Associated Press about Ellerman being the source of the leak and have said they stand by what they've said all along and that they will not reveal the leak and stand by their source. McCormick was fired by Ellerman three months ago from the Hall of Fame, and has said that naming Ellerman was not retaliation for his firing. "I felt it was it wrong, I said it was wrong from the get go." McCormick said regarding feeling guilty of keeping Ellerman's secret quiet anymore on the grand jury leak McCormick told Yahoo! News. Sportstalk tried twice on Friday morning to call Ellerman at his law offices in Colorado Springs and was told that Ellerman had no comment by someone who answered the phone. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin cover Giants baseball and co-host Sportstalk on the Mighty 1690 KFSG Sacramento. Associated Press and SF Gate contributed to this report. |
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