FBI Knew McGuire Took Steroids But Hid Truth From The Public

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FBI Knew McGuire Took Steroids But Hid Truth From The Public

The FBI's Dirty Double Standard

January 13. 2010

Mark McGuire has now done the right thing by telling the truth

The corrupt FBI knew Mark McGuire was taking steroids, which is unlawful, but hid what they discovered. By law, McGuire should have been prosecuted, but once again, the FBI illustrated to the nation and the world, there is a corrupt, appalling double standard, a two tiered justice system that exempts the rich and famous from legal accountability.

It's the same double standard that allowed criminals such as Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford, among others, to flourish whilst engaging in serious criminal wrong doing defrauding others. The only problem with doing that is it can wreck economies. No one respects such deceit, hypocrisy and treachery. The FBI needs to be shutdown.

FBI knew of McGwire's steroid use

Updated: January 11, 2010, 10:17 PM ET - Greg Stejskal didn't need Mark McGwire coming clean Monday about his nearly decade-long steroid usage to know the real story. Stejskal, a retired FBI agent, uncovered the details of McGwire's doping regimen from informants almost two decades ago and, in retrospect, Big Mac is fortunate he wasn't nabbed back then in the federal investigation.

Stejskal, who helped lead the first major federal investigation into illegal steroid distribution called Operation Equine, confirmed that McGwire and his then-Oakland A's teammate, Jose Canseco, were among those identified as steroid users during the probe. The investigation ran from 1989-1993 and led to more than 70 steroid-related convictions, though authorities targeted only suppliers and not users like pumped-up ballplayers.

Federal authorities never considered bringing charges against McGwire, though Stejskal laments that nabbing a big-name athlete might have brought earlier focus to the issue of illegal steroids...

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