Alex Rodriguez will be back on the diamond next MLB season. Rodriguez served a season-long ban for performance enhancing drugs. Now information has surfaced that he paid his cousin Yuri Sucart $700,000 for his silence, and will pay three more payments which will net Yuri $1 million.
According to the NY Daily News, Sucart threatened to expose Rodriguez doping secrets unless he gave him money; the court papers were filed last week in a District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
In 2012, Sucart’s former attorney had demanded $5 million and an estate for Sucart and his wife. A-Rod had already given a semi-confession of steroid use in 2009 where he stated in a press conference that he used steroids given to him by his cousin from 2001-2003.
Sucart is a defendant in the Biogenesis federal case and pleaded not guilty.
A-Rod received the letter demanding money just as the MLB investigations became more serious; he didn’t start paying his cousin until two months before MLB commissioner Bud Selig suspended him for 162 games plus the postseason.
Sucart’s attorney wrote this referencing A-Rod’s refusals to continue to pay Sucart for his past services:
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