Roger Clemens’ defense at the Show 60 Minutes was a disastrous ploy for his defense attorney

Mike Wallace, a prominent investigative journalist, who was one of the initial correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This correspondent made capturing interviews with world famous persons. The most recent stories were linked with the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations related to application of anabolic steroids and HGH by this athlete. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was connected with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was broadcast in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this baseball star in the Show 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of his former personal coach Brian McNamee. This person accused Roger Clemens in usage of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with Mitchell Report investigators, when they investigated the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he applied steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens stated that he would pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used steroids.
The interview of Clemens was an unfortunate public relations maneuver for the attorney Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace had died.
Actually, Wallace hosted much more substantial interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most interesting. Why did it draw all people’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite interesting. Wallace interviewed the lawyer of the president Richard Nixon and the assistant to the president for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman during the Watergate scandal. Wallace called the Watergate scandal “perjury”. He noted about such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal resulted in resignation of the president Richard Nixon.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The journalist named him a “lunatic”. However, he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another individual who was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company cheated before the Congress about their knowledge about nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, many persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can result in federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.

The clinics “South Beach Rejuvenation” and “LA Health and Rejuvenation” sold steroids to bodybuilders and other athletes

Jeffrey George is the owner of a former popular clinic related to hormone replacement therapy. The clinic was called “South Beach Rejuvenation”. Jeffrew George was accused in illegal sales of anabolic steroids. As it was mentioned by investigators, he began tosell controlled substances through his clinic illegally. But in fact he participated in illegal activity of pain clinics established in Florida. The owner of “South Beach Rejuvenation” sold steroids via internet.
George and his twin brother Chris were leaders of a pain clinic activity. They earned 40 million dollars due to illegal distribution of oxycodone and other analgesics during 2 years. This resulted in their accusations. Jeffrey George faced also a murder charge because a customer had died due to overdosing.
Jeffrey George hid his illegal activity through his clinic “South Beach Rejuvenation”. Anabolic steroids were advertising on the internet and in different magazines related to fitness as a part of therapy conducted by the clinic.
It was not the first arrest of George connected with steroids. He was arrested for possession of anabolic steroids , intending to distribute them in 2003. This man was sentenced to 8 months in prison. Then he was involved in illegal sales of anabolic steroids, intending to bypass Florida’s laws that allowed clinics to prescribe and sell steroids legally. George didn’t have any medical education. But he founded the clinic “South Beach Rejuvenation” and employed several physicians that prescribed steroids without any fear. One of his employees was Daniel Hauser. He got 5, 000 dollars weekly for prescriptions of steroids for clients of “South Beach Rejuvenation”.
Since steroids were sold via internet and customers lived far from the clinic, they were required to perform certain tests in clinics that were located near to them. Then they filled results of tests in the certain blanks and sent to the “South Beach Rejuvenation” per internet. Hauser wrote them prescriptions.
Many sales consultants of ”South Beach Rejuvenation” took anabolic steroids too. Furthermore, they got large amounts of steroids with prescriptions and sold them on the side. The sales consultants also explained their clients how to take and administrate together different steroids in order to achieve better effects in bodybuilding and sports.
Chris, George’s brother, helped his friend, Chris Hutson, financially to found a clinic to distribute steroids. Thus, “LA Health and Rejuvenation” was established.
Cynthia Cadet and Robert Meek were two doctors who were hired by Hutson to prescribe anabolic steroids. They were paid 1, 000 dollars weekly.
The persons that established “South Beach Rejuvenation” and “LA Health and Rejuvenation” and physicians employed by them were charged with illegal sales of anabolic steroids and prescriptions via internet.