Outlaw wrote:The Fired Test collector has been sitting on a ready to go lawsuit for months against Braun and others. He was fired from his job once Braun's appeal was announced and apparently wrongly so. For Braun and others they can expect civil litigation shortly and they can decide on settling with Mr. Laurenzi or they can have their day in court. The thing with civil litigation is, it more than likely will all become public. Subpoena's will flow, people will have to testify. My guess is no one will want the details coming out and settlements will happen. Braun and his attorney were the ones who drug this mans name through the mud and thier is a price for that and rightfully so IMO.
It will be all these type of unintended consequences by the Cheaters and the suppliers like Tony B that make this story have a longer shelf life than it should.
Dino Laurenzi - “At no point did I tamper in any way with the samples,” Laurenzi said in the statement. “Given the lateness of the hour that I completed my collections, there was no FedEx office located within 50 miles of Miller Park that would ship packages that day or Sunday. Therefore, the earliest that the specimens could be shipped was Monday, October 3. In that circumstance, CDT has instructed collectors since I began in 2005 that they should safeguard the samples in their homes until FedEx is able to immediately ship the sample to the laboratory, rather than having the samples sit for one day or more at a local FedEx office. The protocol has been in place since 2005 when I started with CDT and there have been other occasions when I have had to store samples in my home for at least one day, all without incident.”
“This situation has caused great emotional distress for me and my family,” Laurenzi said in his statement. “I have worked hard my entire life, have performed my job duties with integrity and professionalism, and have done so with respect to this matter and all other collections in which I have participated.”
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David Cornwell - Apparently unhappy about the questions that continue to swirl around his client, an attorney for Milwaukee Brewers’ star Ryan Braun fired back at Dino Laurenzi Jr., the urine sample collector at the center of the controversy surrounding Braun’s successful appeal of his positive drug test and 50-game suspension.
“Ryan Braun presented a winning defense in the forum that counted,” David Cornwell, Braun’s lawyer, said in a statement released on Thursday. “The landmark decision in Ryan’s favor was based on the evidence and the plain meaning of the words in baseball’s Joint Drug Program.”
Laurenzi reacted to Braun’s comments with a strong defense of his own, saying he followed the protocol of his employer, Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., in taking the sample to his home and placing it in a secure, cool place rather than leaving it in a FedEx office over the weekend.
The sample arrived at the Montreal lab where it was tested in perfect condition, no seals broken, he said, no indication of tampering.
“At no point did I tamper in any way with the samples. It is my understanding that the samples were received at the laboratory with all tamper-resistant seals intact,” Laurenzi said.
“The collector’s attempt to re-litigate his conduct is inappropriate, and his efforts will only be persuasive to those who do not understand the evidence or the rules,” Cornwell said. “Ryan Braun was properly vindicated. Both Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association should be applauded because their Joint Program worked.”
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Laurenzi, a 52-year-old Wisconsin health care worker, was collecting drug samples from MLB players, although once his name and contact information were released to reporters, ostensibly by Braun’s camp, Laurenzi was temporarily pulled from his CDT job. He has since returned to the Milwaukee area to resume his full-time job as the director of rehabilitation services at a health-care facility in Kenosha, Wis., according to his father.
Laurenzi has retained New York attorney Boyd Johnson III of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, to represent him.
I commend you in your prediction and research into this case. Kudos for seeing it happen before it happened. I disagree that Dino Laurenzi Jr, has any case. One has nothing to do with the other, unfortunately, and that really sucks.
There are no winners in this agreement. Braun will forever be known as a cheater and a liar and pretty much a scumbag for the smear campaign he started on Dino Laurenzi Jr, to cover up his cheating. MLB is definitely not a winner, agreeing to what is basically a slap on the wrist for a multiple offender and a player who embarrassed the league with his antics last year. Giving him a suspension for the rest of this season, a lost year for the Brewers anyways, pretty much cost him $3-4 million of a $100 mil contract. How is this good for baseball? Players on the other side of the fence, the non-cheaters, can't be happy with this agreement and other users can't be happy as it pretty much seals their fates, although they may fight for a while. Its just a mess... But the biggest loser in all of this, the person that didn't deserve any of this, is Dino Laurenzi Jr. He was just doing his job and was smeared through the media and the Braun camp email pretty much proved they were putting it all on him. Braun is the lowest of the low. He should just retire, take whatever money he has, and disappear. No one, not even a die hard Brewer fan, can root for this guy. At least Bonds had San Francisco and a loyal following, and was a hall of fame player anyways. Braun is just simply scum.
