"Victor Conte" (born c.1950) in Fresno, California and graduated from C.L. McLane High School is a former musician with Tower of Power and the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative/BALCO, a sports nutrition center in California. He served time in prison in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering.

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I've decided not to talk about the athletes and their involvement in the BALCO scandal. In most cases these athletes are good people, who came from good families and they've already suffered greatly.

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Even the so-called 'gold standard' anti-doping programs designed for Olympic-caliber athletes are ineffective, let alone the inept programs that exist in professional sports.

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I've decided to direct my knowledge, experience and determination toward making sports more honorable for the athletes and fans.

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[These athletes] were cheating and as you helped them do that you were complicit in the cheating, ... every day for people who are convicted of far less serious things than what you have done.

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A professional baseball player, ... can drive a Mack truck through the loopholes in the current anti-doping program being administered.

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There are thousands of those letters that athletes have, and I'm sure they chuckle every time they get them, ... 20/20.

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It is important to fully acknowledge that the current anti-doping programs are ineffective and this fact has contributed to the use-or-lose mentality that exists today.

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There has been a lot of misinformation published and I am looking forward to an opportunity to set the record straight.

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Way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

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