FBI Confidential Informant Who Pointed Finger at Kirk Radomski Was Convicted of Fraud

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Informant Previously Convicted of Fraud
New York Times
An F.B.I. informant who led investigators to a Long Island steroids dealer and helped break open the government’s inquiry into steroid use in Major League Baseball was revealed Wednesday to be a Baltimore man who was previously convicted of real estate fraud.

The identity of the man, Andrew Michael Bogdan, was first reported on The Smoking Gun Web site and independently confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity. [...]

It has long been known that federal investigators relied on a confidential informant to lead them to Kirk Radomski, the former Mets bat boy and Long Island steroids dealer who was convicted in 2007 of distributing steroids. In an affidavit seeking a search warrant for Radomski’s house filed in December 2005, the federal agent Jeff Novitzky testified that since earlier that year, he had been working with a source who was acquainted with people within Major League Baseball. Although Novitzky did not name the informant, he said in the affidavit that “the source was the former subject of an F.B.I. criminal investigation in which the source pled guilty to felony real estate fraud charges.”

In 2001, Bogdan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make false statements and commit wire fraud as part of a real estate flipping scheme. In 2006, he was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay more than $277,000 in restitution, according to documents filed in federal court in Maryland. ...


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