Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss has become the first NFL player connected to Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, who was charged Tuesday for allegedly smuggling performance-enhancing drugs into the U.S.
Report: Santana Moss Injected With HGH By Doctor Anthony Galea
According to reports from The Washington Post and The Buffalo News, Moss was treated by Galea consistently, beginning in October 2007. Those treatments are believed to involve the injection of HGH. It’s also believed Moss is the player Galea was en route to D.C. to treat when he was arrested in September of 2009. Moss suffered from lingering knee problems in ‘06 and ‘07.
Galea’s lawyer, Mark J. Mahoney, had this to say about the case:
“Officials of the NFL and other sports organizations can sleep soundly tonight, because there is nothing he did with these athletes to help them with performance enhancement,” Mahoney said Wednesday. “[Galea] strictly provided treatment for injuries. If any athlete got [human growth hormone], it was injected directly into injured tissue, in very small amounts, for purposes of healing.”
When asked about the report on Wednesday by a Washington Post reporter, Moss declined to talk about the case:
“I’ll talk about football. I don’t know about nothing else,” Moss said. “I ain’t got nothing to do with nothing that ain’t about me.” [...] “I’m telling you right now, I’m talking about football,” Moss said. “You talk about football. Anything else out of that, no.”
Federal prosecutors do not intend to pursue charges against any players linked to Galea, although that wouldn’t stop Roger Goodell from potentially punishing Moss, or others named. The NFL lives by its own code of conduct, which is decidedly more strict than the laws you and I have to follow.
For more on this case, and the Redskins, head to SB Nation’s Hogs Haven.
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