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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 1 - 1 0 - 2 0 0 5 LAWYER IS NULL & 'ROID
By LAURA ITALIANO On the streets, 31-year-old Carlos Baez waded knee-deep in cocaine and cash. But once the jail doors clanked shut, the admitted millionaire drug-gang leader apparently hoped to keep up appearances — as the steroid kingpin of Rikers Island. Two weeks ago, during a routine attorney-client meeting at lower Manhattan's Tombs, Baez's defense lawyer was caught allegedly passing him a large legal folder containing some 300 blue, pink and yellow pills, along with a turkey sandwich and some toiletries. Law-enforcement sources yesterday revealed the contents to be the anabolic steroids methandrostenolone, oxymetholone and trenbolone — a surefire product peddle to jailhouse weightlifters. The revelation is bad news for Baez. He is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty earlier this year to conspiracy and drug possession as a leader of the notorious "Big Bags Gang" — a cadre of thugs who committed more than 100 carjackings and robberies against rival drug gangs. But the revelation that the pills contain a substance that is illegal without a prescription may also prove bad news to the defense lawyer. Representing Baez on the "Big Bags" case — and charged with using her pink high-heeled shoe to kick the bulging folder of contraband over to him — is White Plains-based lawyer Dawn Florio. If a grand jury indicts her on felony contraband smuggling, she faces disbarment and up to seven years' prison. Florio and Baez — a k a Jose Marrero — were reunited in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday. Justice Brenda Soloff granted Florio's request to be relieved from representing Baez, considering that she's now his co-defendant. The newly lawyer-bereft Baez — a muscular man with a small mustache and goatee — immediately cried poverty and requested a free, court-appointed lawyer. This, despite his previous life drenched with jewelry, luxury cars and million-dollar homes, as described in a May 2004 exclusive story by The Post's Murray Weiss. The judge put her foot down: no court-appointed lawyer until he can prove he is broke. Meanwhile, Florio's own lawyer maintained that she had nothing to do with the pills. "The only thing that Miss Florio passed [to her client] was a folder containing legal documents," said her lawyer, Joseph DeMatteo. |
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