Peyton Manning's secret investigation into alleged HGH dealer

[tk13]

This was a really long investigative article so I shortened it quite a bit. It's funny because this sounds like something Pioli would do... only it's a Peyton Manning police force. It's also the first time I've seen Manning's people admit drugs were shipped to his wife.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...2c9_story.html

Inside Peyton Manning’s secret investigation into Al Jazeera documentary

By Will Hobson and Justin Wm. Moyer

BROWNSBURG, Ind. — Five days before a documentary alleged that quarterback Peyton Manning and other star athletes had used performance-enhancing drugs, two men hired by Manning’s lawyers visited the parents of the documentary’s key witness. Both men wore black overcoats and jeans and, according to a 911 call from the house that evening, one initially said he was a law enforcement officer but didn’t have a badge.

After they told their daughter to call 911 the night of Dec. 22, Randall and Judith Sly stepped outside to talk to the strangers, who clarified they were private investigators, not cops. They had come to this red brick house with a well-manicured lawn looking for the Slys’ 31-year-old son, Charlie, a pharmacist who was the primary source in the upcoming documentary.

The revelation of the visit to the Slys’ home in this rural, upper middle class suburb is another in what has been a series of strange twists and turns since the Al Jazeera documentary, “The Dark Side: The Secret World of Sports Doping,” first aired. In the documentary, Sly boasted about helping pro football and baseball players cheat. In one scene, Sly implied that Manning took human growth hormone prescribed by an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic and shipped to Manning’s wife, Ashley.

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Manning’s lawyers launched the private probe shortly after Al Jazeera started contacting athletes who would be named in the documentary. They hired investigators to identify, locate and interrogate Sly, and sent a lawyer to examine Peyton and Ashley’s medical records at the Guyer Institute of Molecular Medicine in Indianapolis.

Manning’s investigative team did nothing that would interfere with subsequent investigations, said Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary and crisis management consultant Manning has hired.

The lawyer who visited the Guyer Institute did not remove any records, Fleischer said, and Manning’s investigators in no way influenced or coerced Sly into issuing his recanting statement, which he recorded Dec. 24, the day after they had questioned him.

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“It was pure puffery,” Cohron said of his client’s words. “He was manufacturing a story to bolster his own appearance.”

The story Sly said he made up contained at least a bit of truth, though: The Guyer Institute did ship medication to Ashley Manning, Fleischer confirmed. Citing Ashley’s right to privacy, Fleischer declined to specify whether the medication was human growth hormone, which is banned by professional sports leagues and only legal to prescribe in America for a few specific conditions, such as growth hormone deficiency, HIV wasting syndrome and short bowel syndrome.

Manning’s pre-emptive investigation, Fleischer said, was a “natural reaction” to being asked to respond to anonymous allegations.

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“The Sly family’s initial thoughts were, ‘This must be a scam,’ ” Cohron said. “His dad thought they [Al Jazeera] were only in the Middle East and they reported on terrorist attacks. The whole situation was surreal.”

The Slys, who refused multiple requests for an interview and deferred all questions to their lawyer, started to realize this was not a scam when private investigators Brian Bauer and Ben Ford arrived at their home just before 5 p.m. on Dec. 22. Initially afraid, the Slys told their daughter Kaitlyn — Charlie’s younger sister, home from North Carolina for Christmas — to call 911. But by the time a police officer arrived a few minutes later, the investigators had allayed Randall and Judith’s fears.

The Slys told the officer the men could stay, dispatch notes show.

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Manning’s investigators are satisfied Sly’s claims about the star quarterback are false.

“It’s like Peyton said: It’s a bunch of hooey and garbage,” said Bauer, who last week spoke briefly with a reporter at the Greenwood, Ind., office of his company, Phenix Investigations.

Bauer deferred most questions to Manning’s lawyers, but denied the claim that he introduced himself to the Slys as law enforcement.

“Impersonating a law enforcement officer is against the law, so obviously I didn’t do that,” said Bauer, a balding, bulky redhead who wore a skin-tight long-sleeved Under Armour shirt and jeans. “Otherwise I would have been arrested.”

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Dr. Guyer declined an interview request this week. Stephen Cooke, an Indianapolis public relations executive who said he was working with Guyer, initially offered to answer questions, and then didn’t reply to multiple emails and voice messages. In multiple statements since the documentary aired, Peyton Manning has never denied that the Guyer clinic shipped human growth hormone to his wife, as Sly alleged. Manning has just denied ever taking it.

“We’ve never said he [Sly] had everything wrong. We just said what he said about Peyton was wrong,” Fleischer said. “It’s like the saying . . . Someone with a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.”

[Rasputin]

Not much of a seqret

[Toby Waller]

big waste of your time just like deflategate

[RobBlake]

just like a criminal injecting himself into an investigation to "help".. i see you Sheriff.

[LiveSteam]

We have way to many lawyers in this country....

[BigCatDaddy]

Nothing like a little witness intimidation.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Nothing like a little witness intimidation.

Knock, knock.

"Who's there?"

"This is Von Miller and Aqib Talib. John Elway sent us over here to talk to you about your news reports."

[Sound of running]

[Sound of gunfire and a door being kicked in]

[Sound of stabbings and fires being started]

[Coochie liquor]

Reminds me of when OJ went out trying to find Nicole's "real killer"

[MahiMike]

I don't watch the news much but when I do, it's Al Jazeera. They are the only outlet that reports honestly and doesn't cover the Kardashians.

[Bowser]

So Peyton has hired Ari Fleishcer, former White House press secretary, to be his "crisis management consultant"?

Yeah, that doesn't make him look guilty at all, lol.

[Just Passin' By]

The plot thickens:

Manning’s own hired representative has confirmed the central piece of information to The Washington Post: drugs were shipped to Manning’s house under his wife Ashley’s name.

As part of an investigative report into Al Jazeera’s documentary, Will Hobson and Justin Wm. Moyer wrote the following:

“The story Sly said he made up contained at least a bit of truth, though: The Guyer Institute did ship medication to Ashley Manning, [Ari] Fleischer confirmed.”

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/02/0...mannings-wife/

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Bowser

So Peyton has hired Ari Fleishcer, former White House press secretary, to be his "crisis management consultant"?

Yeah, that doesn't make him look guilty at all, lol.

Ari ****ing Fleishcer.....then sent two goons in black trench coats to the guys home? It intimidated them enough to call 9-11.

Manning plays dumb.. calling is "a bunch of hooey", like he is a simple hillbilly that has no idea what's going on. Hiring the former White House PS sounds like a preemptive, damage control move to me....and a seriously expensive one at that.

Actions dictate intent...word are cheap.

The Colts dumped their icon because they thought there was no chance of him playing again....and he "magically" returns to throw 50 TDs. Nothing to see here....except HGH being sent to his home.

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by Bowser

So Peyton has hired Ari Fleishcer, former White House press secretary, to be his "crisis management consultant"?

Yeah, that doesn't make him look guilty at all, lol.

Hiring the best makes you guilty?
You have to hire sub part to be innocent?

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by smellypitts

Hiring the best makes you guilty?
You have to hire sub part to be innocent?

Why hire anybody, much less a former White House press secretary for damage control?

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Why hire anybody, much less a former White House press secretary for damage control?

Because wealthy
Because handlers
Because media