Victor Conte, owner of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, also admitted to money-laundering.
But as the book reports, Bonds chose Balco because that's where Olympic athletes went.
Baseball's all-time home-run king is accused of getting steroids from a San Francisco company called BALCO.
Sentences for other athletes convicted in connection with the BALCO investigation have not included prison time.
Hunter, a former Olympic shot putter, and Victor Conte, the president of BALCO, both claim she used steroids.
Federal agents had a warrant for test results for 10 baseball players who were linked to the BALCO scandal.
She was banned two years for her involvement in the BALCO doping scandal.
The BALCO he referred to is the Bay Area lab that allegedly provided performance enhancers to a number of athletes.
Mr. WILLIAMS: Yes, we've consulted many government documents from the BALCO investigation.
The evidence comes from the forthcoming book, Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports, to be published later this month.
Pound also criticized U.S. athletics bosses over a spate of recent drugs cases among American athletes following an investigation into the BALCO laboratory in California, where THG was developed.
Chambers, banned for two years after being caught in the BALCO doping scandal, clocked a swift 10 seconds flat to hold off the challenge of promising youngster Simeon Williamson.
One federal agent said in an affidavit that he had pulled scores of items out BALCO's trash that showed the depths of BALCO's involvement in putting performance-enhancing drugs into the hands of athletes.
In the lawsuit Armstrong says the USADA has been working with Food and Drug Administration agent, Jeff Novitzky, who is famous for his work on BALCO, Marion Jones and, more recently, on Armstrong himself.
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Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of the investigation that targeted his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.
And if Alex took it over from Barry Bonds, who's kind of been embroiled in the BALCO scandal - I think there is some disappointment, some kind of resignation, you know, it certainly seems some of the cynicism.
Mr. ALLAN BUD SELIG (Commissioner of Baseball): The unique circumstances surrounding BALCO and the evidence revealed in a recently published book have convinced me that major league baseball must undertake an investigation of the allegations that players have used illegal performance enhancing substances.
The authors conducted more than 200 interviews and used grand jury testimony from the Balco (Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative) case. (Balco allegedly sold steroids and human growth hormone to Bonds.) Bonds has never tested positive for steroids or HGH and says he never knowingly took steroids.
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