All-Star Dealer: Tony Bosch
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Mariana breaks down how a major player made it big—and lost it all—in the dangerously unregulated, billion-dollar black market of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Tony Bosch’s Biogenesis of America was behind the largest PED scandal in American sports history, leading to the suspension of 14 professional baseball players, including Yankees' superstar Alex Rodriguez. How did he go from self-proclaimed “biochemist” of an anti-aging clinic to pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute testosterone? The Trafficked TV series is available now on National Geographic, and new episodes air Wednesdays.
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