Shane Mosley drops defamation case against BALCO founder
“Sugar” Shane Mosley has dropped a multimillion dollar defamation lawsuit against Bay Area Lab Co-Operative (BALCO) founder Victor Conte, Fanhouse reports.
The popular boxing website received an email from Conte recently outlining Mosley’s decision to drop the case.
"The $12 million dollar defamation lawsuit filed against me in 2008 by Shane Mosley has finally been voluntarily dismissed. I look forward to more productive endeavors," Conte stated.
Mosley filed the lawsuit in 2008 after a discussion between Conte and various news outlets, including the New York Daily News, USA Today and Sports Illustrated. Conte depicted how he instructed the former world champion how to inject himself with EPO, and
performance-enhancing drug. Conte also indicated that Mosley had paid for the substance with a check received after a meeting at BALCO’s headquarters in California.
The allegations were immediately dismissed by Mosley as false.
Conte acknowledged that his position on earlier statements had not changed. He said: “I continue to stand by all of my previous public statements about the athletes who have claimed that they 'unknowingly' received drugs from me.”
Aside from speaking candidly about Mosley, Conte also mentioned former track star Marion Jones as an athlete that was involved in his operations. Jones recently revealed in an autobiography that she had failed to come clean on drug allegations in the past.
She has also been involved in a defamation case of her own with Conte.
"In the past, Marion Jones and others have made public statements saying that I misled or duped them into using drugs," Conte claimed. "Of course, Marion's $25 million dollar defamation case against me was dismissed and she was convicted of lying to federal
agents. So, it's outrageous that she continues to say publicly that she took the drugs 'unknowingly.'"
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