NEW YORK (AP) -The FBI informant who helped several investigations into steroid use in sports is an unemployed, 43-year-old convicted felon from Baltimore, a Web site reported Wednesday.
The Smoking Gun said Andrew Michael Bogdan was the man referred to by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky as an FBI informant. Novitzky led the criminal probe into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
The Web site said Bogdan befriended former Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie and later placed steroids orders through the player and Kirk Radomski, the former New York Mets clubhouse attendant who admitted he sold performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of major leaguers.
Bogdan acknowledged his role in an interview with The Smoking Gun, and told the Web site he hadn’t been in touch with his FBI contacts for a couple of years.
Approached by a reporter from The Associated Press on Wednesday at his home in Baltimore, Bogdan said: “There’s no comment to be made here. Please don’t come back.”
Bogdan lost his job restocking vending machines last year.
In a 2005 affidavit sworn by Novitzky, he described Bogdan as “the former subject of an FBI criminal investigation in which the source pled guilty to felony real estate fraud charges. In an attempt to lessen the source’s criminal exposure, the source has been working as an informant with the FBI for several years.”
In 2006, Bogdan was placed on five years’ probation and ordered to pay $277,650 in restitution, the Web site said.
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