Baseball Cop by Eddie Dominguez & Christian Red & Teri Thompson

Author:Eddie Dominguez & Christian Red & Teri Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2018-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

“TELL THE DEA I WANT THIS DONE F—ING NOW!”

The DEA agents we first met in the Biogenesis investigation weren’t exactly your type A sports fans. Tom Reilly and I went to the DEA’s Weston, Florida, offices about thirty-five miles northwest of Miami in the summer of 2012 to lay out what we had uncovered on Anthony Bosch, his father, Pedro, and the antiaging clinic on South Dixie Highway in Coral Gables. We got a few blank stares when we started to mention the possible connection between professional baseball players and Bosch. But despite the sports information gap, we clicked with our DEA counterparts right away, and their interest in launching a case seemed apparent from the outset.

Moran described it this way. “They [the DOI] were professionals. They were investigators. They brought us a pile of info. It was a little daunting at first because there were a couple females on the [DEA] investigative team—we’re baseball fans—but we were not privy to a lot of the lingo, and everything that came along with it. It was a huge learning curve for everyone. But they were fabulous from the beginning to the end.”1

Kevin Stanfill, the DEA assistant special agent in charge of the Biogenesis federal case, recalled how adept Reilly and I had been in our presentation of the evidence. “We went into the meeting with Eddie and Tom—I had never seen anybody work iPads. They were pulling up reports, and started telling us about baseball players, who they were getting their dope from—whether it was Bosch—and how they got it. You could tell that they had spent, at the very least, months and months, and they knew it like the back of their hand,” he said. “They’re talking about the dates the players did this and that, supposed meetings. We were thinking, ‘This is not some rent-a-cop type thing. These guys are the real deal.’ My job was to make sure that the DEA train was on the DEA track and the MLB train was on the other track. You have some sensitive lines—grand jury, Title 3, when to start intercepting people’s phones. Right from the get-go, the DOI guys wooed the agents. These guys really had it going on.”2

There was one thing missing: a way into Bosch’s world. Following those initial meetings with us, the agents set up a room where they started to document the names and key characters related to Biogenesis. The room, known in law enforcement circles as the “wire room” once the wiretaps were approved and in place, would evolve into a teeming center of activity with agents listening in on headphones and keeping track of the names emerging from the perps’ conversations, walls covered with sticky notes and papers. The list of names on a whiteboard set up in the room would grow and grow, including those in Alex Rodriguez’s inner circle, such as Jorge “Ugi” Velazquez, Yuri Sucart, and Carlos Acevedo, along with peripheral characters, including a guy whose sole purpose, the DEA found out, was to supply needles to Acevedo.

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