Former FOX News Correspondent Pleads Guilty

[Enigma]

Former FOX News correspondent Claire Godfrey pled guilty to steroid distribution in Albany (N.Y.) court on Tuesday. To avoid a prison sentence, she agreed to co-operate in an ongoing investigation into steroid distribution. Investigators have said that Godfrey sold steroids to two WWE wrestlers, but Chris Benoit was not included.

 

The report, in the New York Daily News, says Godfrey wrote $1.3 million worth of prescriptions for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to two WWE wrestlers and one bodybuilder without every seeing them for a patient visit. She reportedly earned $50 for each prescription, and earned a total of $200,000 for writing scripts over a seven-to-eight month period.

 

Godfrey is expected to testify against the Orlando-based pharmaceutical company, Signature Pharmacy, which is as the center of a prescription drug distribution ring over the Internet that was subject to a federal raid earlier this year.

 

Assistant District Attorney told the N.Y. Daily News: "This is an important plea. If this case ever goes to trial, Claire Godfrey will be a star witness."

 

WWE spokesman Gary Davis said: "We applaud the efforts of government officials to shut down the illegal use of steroids and those doctors who illegally prescribe them."

 

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Let the guessing game begin.

[LJSexay]

oh ho ho, the snowball effect continues. Shit like this is going to make the potential congressional hearing that much more of a real possibility.

[Vern Gagne]

Rey and Holly.

[geniusMoment]

I think Rey has been getting steriods from every doctor that will prescribe them. I don't think if he blades blood would come out, I believe anabolic steriods would seep out from the cut.

[haVoc]

Only two? Wasn't there a good 6 or more names originally? I remember Edge and Helms being listed as well.

[Spaceman Spiff]

That was a different doctor, I believe.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

Well, I never thought a Fox News corespondent would be distributing steroids. I guess you learn something new every day.

 

How do the wrestlers travel with these substances? Surely, the TSA would catch them.

[haVoc]

That was a different doctor, I believe.

 

So this is what? Third, fourth time Rey's name has popped up on a list this year?

[Spaceman Spiff]

That "Rey and Holly" answer upthread was just a guess. I don't know if the wrestlers were named yet in this case.

[Steviekick]

Well, I never thought a Fox News corespondent would be distributing steroids. I guess you learn something new every day.

 

How do the wrestlers travel with these substances? Surely, the TSA would catch them.

 

I'd assume they would transport them in different containers or just avoid bringing them on the road altogether.

[mfn]

I would be shocked if Rey tested clean. It just seems that steroids are everywhere nows. That's mostly due to the fact that the media is all about it now-a-days.

 

I am very interested to see who these two men are. She obviously had to give up the names, so it's the waiting game to see when those names get released.

[razazteca]

Test and Snitsky.

[bobobrazil1984]

I would be shocked if Rey tested clean. It just seems that steroids are everywhere nows. That's mostly due to the fact that the media is all about it now-a-days.

 

I am very interested to see who these two men are. She obviously had to give up the names, so it's the waiting game to see when those names get released.

 

it's been said plenty in the benoit thread, but testing "clean" in WWE's testing doesn't actually mean you're clean of steroids. WWE's tolerances before you get "caught" are way high, higher than the athetlic guidelines that all sports use.

 

The testing I think is more abuot ensuring that nobody actually dies from steroids (ie - it only catches them if you're really abusing them - your testosterone levels are sky high).

[Jingus]

Well, I never thought a Fox News corespondent would be distributing steroids. I guess you learn something new every day.

 

How do the wrestlers travel with these substances? Surely, the TSA would catch them.

 

I'd assume they would transport them in different containers or just avoid bringing them on the road altogether.

 

In cases like this one or with Dr. Astin, the wrestlers have 100% legal and legit-looking prescriptions for the steroids, so they can take 'em wherever they want.