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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

AP: MLB’s new unit probing player ID theft as well as drug use

Major League Baseball’s new investigative unit is at work on several probes that could lead to discipline while also dealing with the burgeoning business of player identity theft.

The department of investigations, established in January at the recommendation of former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, already uncovered evidence that Jordan Schafer, the top prospect in the Atlanta Braves’ farm system, used human growth hormone. Schafer was suspended April 8 for 50 games.

“There are several other investigations in the pipeline,” said Bob DuPuy, baseball’s chief operating officer. “You’ll be reading about them.”
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Still, they said their unit was spending more time on player protection issues, such as identity theft, than it was on drug probes.

In an interview Monday at MLB’s offices, [Dan] Mullin said there were about 500 instances in 2007 relating to investigations in which players were victims, which included instances ranging from fraud to stalking to phony pages on MySpace and Facebook. There is an ongoing probe of two people falsely claiming to be scouts.

“Some of them were full-blown identity thefts, where people are opening lines of credit in someone’s name, and some of them are just impostor cases,” Mullin said. “We had a case last year where a guy was posing as a player. He actually was dating a girl. She believed she was dating this major league player, shopping for real estate, shopping for cars.”

NTNgod Posted: April 29, 2008 at 08:50 PM | 6 comment(s)
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   1. MM1f  Posted: April 29, 2008 at 07:56 PM (#2763300)
Oh come on.

An "A-Rod" facebook page at Syracuse Univ or something is not "identity theft"
   2. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life.  Posted: April 29, 2008 at 08:09 PM (#2763346)
I'm glad they've got a new unit up and ready to replace the Big Unit when he retires, but we really don't need to know what sorts of things the unit is probing.
   3. Maury Brown  Posted: April 29, 2008 at 09:06 PM (#2763638)
“We had a case last year where a guy was posing as a player."
So, she was dating Carl Pavano.
   4. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life.  Posted: April 29, 2008 at 09:16 PM (#2763661)
I was surprised upon reading this to find out that "player ID theft" wasn't referring to players taking the identities of other people from their home town in order to appear older (or younger) and therefore be more attractive to MLB scouts.
   5. Walt Davis  Posted: April 29, 2008 at 11:02 PM (#2763831)
There is an ongoing probe of two people falsely claiming to be scouts.

Watch out CBW! :-)
   6. Gambling Rent Czar  Posted: April 30, 2008 at 02:34 AM (#2763929)
There is an ongoing probe of two people falsely claiming to be scouts

there is a lot more than two.
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