Radomski testified before grand jury

The former New York Mets clubhouse worker who admitted selling performance-enhancing drugs to major league players testified last week before a federal grand jury investigating steroids, court records made available Monday showed.

Federal prosecutors charged Kirk Radomski on April 12 but asked a federal judge to seal the case until he testified before the same grand jury investigating San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds for perjury.

“The government intends to call the defendant before the grand jury on April 26, 2007,” prosecutors wrote, requesting to seal Radomski’s court file. “If the information is publicly available prior to April 26, 2007, the ongoing investigation could be jeopardized by efforts to intimidate or otherwise influence the defendant.”

Radomski’s attorney, John Riley of Hauppauge, N.Y., declined to discuss his client’s testimony. A spokeswoman for U.S. Atty. Scott Schools also declined to comment.

The court records were unsealed after Radomski, 37, pleaded guilty Friday to felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money.

Radomski admitted providing steroids, human growth hormone, amphetamines and other drugs to “dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players and associates,” Schools said in a statement.

According to court documents, Radomski became a major source of drugs for baseball players after federal investigators shut down the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame, Calif., in 2003.

Under the plea deal, Radomski agreed to cooperate with the continuing federal investigation, as well as baseball’s inquiry led by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.

Radomski faces up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine at his sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 7.