WSVN — The Florida Department of Health determined Anthony Bosch, the man at the center of the baseball doping scandal, was acting as a doctor without a license and fined him $5,000. <\/p>\n
His clinic was closed at the time, but 7News has learned a cover letter and a one-page citation was all the state sent to local prosecutors. <\/p>\n
Ed Griffith, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office: “We had been in contact with them, I believe in May, asking if they had information, please send it to us so we could evaluate possible criminality as part of any investigation that might be ongoing.”<\/p>\n
But according to spokesman Ed Griffith, the State Attorney’s Office got nothing more from the Department of Health.<\/p>\n
Carmel Cafiero: “Did they give you any information on the statements they took from former patients?”<\/p>\n
Ed Griffith: “No, no, we have not received anything beyond the original notice.”<\/p>\n
I was the first to give them the full 86-page report detailing the Department of Health case against Bosch. We obtained it through a public records request. <\/p>\n
Carmel Cafiero: “So to have a reporter have to give this to you as opposed to the state, what do you think of that?”<\/p>\n
Ed Griffith: “That’s highly unusual.”<\/p>\n
Included in the report, sworn statements from three patients who say they were treated by Bosch. One patient, believed to be the Biogenesis whistle-blower, told an investigator he was personally injected by Bosch. Another patient referred to him as “Dr. Bosch” and told investigators Bosch provided him “vitamins and daily shots … so I could inject myself.” And a woman wrote that her husband “became so violent” after taking injections supplied by Bosch, “he attacked me with a knife.” <\/p>\n
Carmel Cafiero: “What do you think of a state agency operating like this?”<\/p>\n
Ed Griffith: “I find it very surprising.”<\/p>\n
The warning signs may have been there for quite some time. 7News has also learned the State Health Department had Bosch on its radar years ago. In 2011, it investigated a complaint that Bosch was acting as a doctor.<\/p>\n
The state investigator reports he was told it was a “marketing business which generates referrals to medical offices for weight loss and anti-aging.” The case was closed with no action. Meanwhile, Bosch’s clinic operation is now the subject of a federal investigation.<\/p>\n
Carmel Cafiero, 7News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"