Ex-Mets employee provided steroids

A former New York Mets clubhouse employee pleaded guilty Friday to distributing steroids to major league players for a decade and has agreed to help baseball’s steroids investigators.

Kirk Radomski, 37, said he provided anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, Clenbuterol, amphetamines and other drugs to “dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players, and associates, on teams throughout Major League Baseball,” San Francisco U.S. Atty. Scott Schools said in a statement.

He did not identify any of Radomski’s clients, and the names of players appeared to be blacked out of a search warrant affidavit obtained by several news organizations.

Radomski pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money. He faces up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine at his sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 7.

Radomski agreed to testify before a grand jury, if needed, and to cooperate in the continuing federal probe of steroids in sports. He also agreed to meet with investigators from baseball’s steroids investigation, led by George Mitchell.

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. It was the center of a massive drug distribution ring.

The search warrant affidavit listed 23 checks worth more than $30,000 that federal investigators alleged were deposited by individuals associated with MLB into Radomski’s bank account between May 2003 and March 2005, the Washington Post reported.