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Victor Conte's long-ago decision to save money imperils case against Barry Bonds
[SIZE=-1]Los Angeles Times, CA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Instead of following a strict chain-of-custody system that documented every step in a urine sample's gathering and testing, BALCO only submitted a sample with a number code to Quest. No one watched the athlete urinate in a cup, no one noted how that sample was handled before it reached Quest.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Conte estimated he saved more than $15,000 overall in the Quest discounts, then realized as federal investigators circled him before raiding BALCO in September 2003 that the discount plan would have the legal impact of creating reasonable doubt beneficial to BALCO-connected defendants.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I knew there were going to be consequences to what I was doing a long time before they [federal investigators] walked through my door," Conte said. "Did I know then that someday this lack of a paper trail would serve me? Yeah, I knew."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco declined to comment on the Bonds' case, and Quest officials were not immediately available for comment. ...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Los Angeles Times, CA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Instead of following a strict chain-of-custody system that documented every step in a urine sample's gathering and testing, BALCO only submitted a sample with a number code to Quest. No one watched the athlete urinate in a cup, no one noted how that sample was handled before it reached Quest.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Conte estimated he saved more than $15,000 overall in the Quest discounts, then realized as federal investigators circled him before raiding BALCO in September 2003 that the discount plan would have the legal impact of creating reasonable doubt beneficial to BALCO-connected defendants.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I knew there were going to be consequences to what I was doing a long time before they [federal investigators] walked through my door," Conte said. "Did I know then that someday this lack of a paper trail would serve me? Yeah, I knew."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco declined to comment on the Bonds' case, and Quest officials were not immediately available for comment. ...[/SIZE]
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