Yuri Sucart Faces a Decade in Prison After Years of Doing A-Rod's Dirty Work
Tim Elfrink
MIAMI -- It would be hard to imagine a character less suited to Alex Rodriguez's luxury lifestyle of private jets and South of Fifth condos than the shackled man federal agents led into the DEA's Weston, Florida headquarters last week.
On August 5, Yuri Sucart was clad in a baggy white T-shirt, ill-fitting black pants, socks and sandals. He looked more like a paunchy, balding soccer dad than a guy who'd spent decades in A-Rod's tight inner circle. Yet the truth is, no one was closer to the suspended Yankees superstar through his whole career than his older primo.
Along with Biogenesis owner Tony Bosch, Sucart was arrested last week. Bosch has already admitted to a host of sins, from supplying scores of Major League ballplayers to doping up at least 18 high school athletes. Less attention has been paid to Sucart's arrest on six counts of illegally supplying testosterone.
Charges against the pair and five others mark the emphatic coda to a saga that began with a Miami New Times investigation in January 2013 and peaked last summer with the suspension of 15 professional ballplayers tied to Bosch, including a season-long ban for A-Rod.
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