Patrick Arnold sentenced

[youandme]

So he was sentenced to 3 months prison? What kind of fine did he have to pay?



SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge sentenced the Illinois chemist who devised a steroid at the center of the BALCO sports doping scandal to three months in prison on Friday.

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Judge Susan Illston accepted a plea deal agreement of three months prison followed by three months home detention as part of a two-year supervised release program for Patrick Arnold, known as the "father of prohormones," which are steroid-like substances.

The punishment was the same as baseball star Barry Bonds' personal trainer received last year for steroid distribution in the BALCO affair, which has tarred the reputations of top athletes in track and field, baseball and football.

Illston last year sentenced the head of the BALCO lab to four months jail, four months home confinement.

"It's a really destructive path you have been on," Illston told Arnold during the sentencing hearing, adding the doping scandal has been "damaging to the nation as a whole."

Arnold told reporters he plans on leading a "nice clean life" after serving his sentence and apologized for his role in the doping scandal.

"I am very regretful for what I've done," he said.

Nanci Clarence, Arnold's lawyer, ruled out the possibility he would help prosecutors by sharing his knowledge of steroids. "He is not cooperating," Clarence said after the sentencing.

In April, Arnold admitted guilt to one count of conspiring to distribute steroids. He concocted the steroid known as "Clear" or THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) that had enabled pro athletes to boost their performance without detection.

According to the federal indictment last year, Arnold synthesized THG from gestrinone, a steroid for which he paid $10,800 in China and then sent the refashioned substance to California-based BALCO and others.

Officials only gained the ability to detect Clear after a track coach in 2003 sent a used syringe to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Only new testing developed afterward was able to detect use of the drug.

The BALCO scandal continues to take a toll.

On Thursday, the trainer that sent in the discarded syringe, Trevor Graham, was banned from using U.S. Olympic Committee training centers and facilities. Earlier, one of his trainees, Olympic and 100-meter champion        Justin Gatlin failed a test for testosterone or its precursors.

San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds, who is playing mediocre baseball this year, is also still the subject of a grand jury probe into whether he lied in BALCO testimony about any past association with steroids.

[DK II]

who is patrick arnold?

[davidpaul]

who is patrick arnold?

Tom Arnold's older brother.

[youandme]

"damaging to the nation as a whole." Yeah ok dumbass and a war is not damaging to the whole world

[youandme]

who is patrick arnold?

If your serious about that answer....you should read up on him


From meso

Patrick Arnold is a chemist who is responsible for the introduction of androstenedione to the market as well as other second and third generation prohormone products. He is recognized as being unsurpassed in knowledge regarding prohormones and is regarded as the "father" of prohormones.

Patrick also is credited for introducing other well-known supplement products to the marketplace including chrysin, ipriflavone, and lysophosphatidyl choline. His expertise is in hormone biochemistry as it relates to optimal health, performance enhancement, and muscle building.

Patrick has been somewhat of a megaphone for the industry, constantly writing articles in popular fitness publications like Ironman and Muscular Development as well as online publications such as MESO-Rx and Muscle Monthly. Patrick’s non-confrontational style and his straightforward demeanor have fueled a successful following.

Always supporting the industry, Patrick is also the President of the Prohormone Research Organization (PRO), a lobby group assembled from some of the most influential members in the supplement industry as well as the anti-aging community. PRO is committed to providing legislators and government officials with truthful, scientific information about prohormones and other dietary supplements.

Patrick currently is president of LPJ Research Inc., and Illinois company that manufactures bulk prohormone products as well as other dietary supplement ingredients. He also heads a private label supplement company called Ergopharm that specializes in prohormones.

Education

Patrick Arnold received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of New Haven in 1990. While working as a synthetic-organic chemist at a major chemical company, Patrick was enrolled in graduate courses at Montclair St. University and the University of Connecticut.

Patrick cut his Ph.D. studies short to pursue his own business venture, LPJ Research

Accomplishments

Patrick was the first person to introduce the use of androstenedione for anti-aging and sports use in the United States. Furthering the research on prohormones lead Patrick to secure patents for both 4-androstenediol (Androdiol®) and 19-nor-4-androstenediol (Norandrodiol®). Patrick has also recently filed for patents on 1-AD, his new prohormone discovery, and other upcoming products.

In 1998, the Sporting News selected Patrick as one of their 100 Most Powerful People in Sports.

[youandme]

Haha you know it's true

[benchmstr]

S T F U ya fuggen whining hippie.

you cant fight for peace thats like fucking for virginity

[HRDCOR]

Just out of intrest does any one know how much P Arnold is worth and what patents he may hold ??

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

So he was sentenced to 3 months prison? What kind of fine did he have to pay?



SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge sentenced the Illinois chemist who devised a steroid at the center of the BALCO sports doping scandal to three months in prison on Friday.

ADVERTISEMENT
 
Judge Susan Illston accepted a plea deal agreement of three months prison followed by three months home detention as part of a two-year supervised release program for Patrick Arnold, known as the "father of prohormones," which are steroid-like substances.

The punishment was the same as baseball star Barry Bonds' personal trainer received last year for steroid distribution in the BALCO affair, which has tarred the reputations of top athletes in track and field, baseball and football.

Illston last year sentenced the head of the BALCO lab to four months jail, four months home confinement.

"It's a really destructive path you have been on," Illston told Arnold during the sentencing hearing, adding the doping scandal has been "damaging to the nation as a whole."

Arnold told reporters he plans on leading a "nice clean life" after serving his sentence and apologized for his role in the doping scandal.

"I am very regretful for what I've done," he said.

Nanci Clarence, Arnold's lawyer, ruled out the possibility he would help prosecutors by sharing his knowledge of steroids. "He is not cooperating," Clarence said after the sentencing.

In April, Arnold admitted guilt to one count of conspiring to distribute steroids. He concocted the steroid known as "Clear" or THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) that had enabled pro athletes to boost their performance without detection.

According to the federal indictment last year, Arnold synthesized THG from gestrinone, a steroid for which he paid $10,800 in China and then sent the refashioned substance to California-based BALCO and others.

Officials only gained the ability to detect Clear after a track coach in 2003 sent a used syringe to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Only new testing developed afterward was able to detect use of the drug.

The BALCO scandal continues to take a toll.

On Thursday, the trainer that sent in the discarded syringe, Trevor Graham, was banned from using U.S. Olympic Committee training centers and facilities. Earlier, one of his trainees, Olympic and 100-meter champion        Justin Gatlin failed a test for testosterone or its precursors.

San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds, who is playing mediocre baseball this year, is also still the subject of a grand jury probe into whether he lied in BALCO testimony about any past association with steroids.

Barry Bonds playing a mediocre career.  Yeah sure.  I believe he broke the Babe's HR record...didn't he???  Obviously the writer is bias

[disco_stu]

"damaging to the nation as a whole." Yeah ok dumbass and a war is not damaging to the whole world

Americans are cheats.... but the rest of the world already knew this. You can just tell by the attitudes of those on this board.

oh i left out ignorant, righteous, arrogant, naive and intolerant.

not all...but a disturbingly large amount of people. its cultural.

[timfogarty]

Barry Bonds playing a mediocre career.  Yeah sure.  I believe he broke the Babe's HR record...didn't he???  Obviously the writer is bias

read it again.  "playing mediocre baseball this year", as in not playing as well this year as he was last year, which is true.

[HRDCOR]

I'm sick and tired of the rest of the world blaming anything and everything on America.  You are a failure because of your own shortcomings, not because of anything America did.  Got that?                                                 

I totally agree ---any one heard the saying "You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink" !!

Steroids are one of those issues where there use is still a moral dilemma , they are accept and acknowledged that they are part of our sporting culture , but society says they are wrong , but the effects they provide are required by the same society to be noted as good in your chosen sporting field , in fact any thing less achieved since the advent use of steroids for performance in sport these days is deemed as failure ( aka Barry Bonds )

We cant go back , society wont allow it , its human nature to go forwards , thats why our eyes are in the front of our head !!! ( think about it )

[disco_stu]

yeah....just exactly as i posted.. ignorant and naive. we are talking about athletes cheating as indicative of US attitudes.

what you read further into the thread is your own psych...which is exactly as i posted...you are one of the people i am directing at.

but too ignorant and arrogant to self crit.


hey, lets go to wallmart and buy some guns!!!...and then go shoot stuff!..

[youandme]

So what did he do that was so bad really...invent something?

[HRDCOR]

  So what did he do that was so bad really...invent something?                                                 

Once again I sorta agree , admittedly he got in trouble for selling the stuff , but no one was forced to buy it and there is no concrete evidence that it is detrimental to your health , in fact testosterone is used to aid,s one,s health !!!!

Sure abuse can cause problems , just as can abuse of ,lets say FOOD can , but no one is forcing them to take either are they !!!

Well perhaps society demands are , so do we Police society , ahh no we already do that !!!

[youandme]

Who knows if there were not a tirade on people that use supplements  PA could have been inventing some more stuff to help patients with aids who are wasting away, but instead this guy is shelling out money left and right for legal fees, getting hit with fines for who knows how long and how much and being put behind bars...

[what.]

Barry Bonds playing a mediocre career.  Yeah sure.  I believe he broke the Babe's HR record...didn't he???  Obviously the writer is bias

Babe's HR total wasn't a record asswad.

[dr.chimps]

Babe's HR total wasn't a record asswad.

It certainly was, until 'Hammerin' Hank' Aaron surpassed it to notch 755 of them.  He was elected to the Hall of Fame with like 98% voting too. 

/I think Babe was elected to Hall #1

[timfogarty]

So what did he do that was so bad really...invent something?

what he invented, or created, was tetrahydrogestrinone, the previously undetectable anabolic steroid at the heart of the BALCO scandal.  Creating it was legal.  Selling it to Victor Conte is what got him in trouble.   

[dr.chimps]

what he invented, or created, was tetrahydrogestrinone, the previously undetectable anabolic steroid at the heart of the BALCO scandal.  Creating it was legal.  Selling it to Victor Conte is what got him in trouble.   

Tim? In English, please?

[Adam Empire]

So what did he do that was so bad really...invent something?

Well, the shipping of juice into the US can't help...

[timfogarty]

Well, the shipping of juice into the US can't help...

as a pharmacutical manufacturer, he had a license to do that.  he could also sell it to other companies.  Selling it to Conte was the illegal part

[AlliedPowers]

what he invented, or created, was tetrahydrogestrinone, the previously undetectable anabolic steroid at the heart of the BALCO scandal.  Creating it was legal.  Selling it to Victor Conte is what got him in trouble.   

can you be a little more clear?

hahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahaha monster pun

[disco_stu]

What are you doing on this site you whining socialist failure? I'm sure you can find some other angry, unemployed, left-wing guerillas to bitch with on the internet.

sorry, my bad.. thats right, the US owns the internet too.

please read my fisrst post about being naive, arrogant and ignorant. infact, read it after every post you make here.

[youandme]

can you be a little more clear?

hahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahaha monster pun

haha I got it.

Yes like Tim said he had a license to buy and sell this supplement, the one that he invented. Also Adam it wasnt a steroid till the media ran with it and put the spin on it.