For the past several days I’ve been telling you about PurePeptides.com, the EliteFitness.com sponsor who was busted for selling Lr3IGF-1 and other performance enhancing drugs (peptides mostly). Unfortunately, EliteFitness.com has been deleting posts about the subject, and, to be quite frank, pissing me off by denying that the bust ever happened. SO I kept digging, and digging, because I’m that guy. I’m not only that guy, I’m the wrong guy to call a liar, even when you think it’s not going to get back to me. I would have left this alone if EF weren’t such d-bags about the whole thing (and if my readers didn’t keep on me with emails asking for more information!).
Well, I struck paydirt. I don’t have a copy of the indictment because it’s either sealed or it hasn’t been officially filed yet. There’s been nothing in the media so far. I have no idea why I can’t find it, but I know it’s out there. A considerably frightening reason that this document is yet-unfound-or-filed could be that the guy who got in trouble is going to be setting people up for a reduced sentence, in which case the indictment won’t be unsealed for months or years. Why is this particularly frightening? Well, the OG’s in the industry will recognize the guy’s screen name as someone who has been around since 2000, although he stopped posting under this name around 2006-2007 when he shut his message board down:
William Wallace.
That’s who was busted. William Wallace. That’s a screen name the OG’s are going to remember as having been a moderator on the original Triedia.com in 2000 and 2001, as well as being the former owner of Bodybuilding4life.com. EliteFitness.com, Steroid.com, Mesorx.com, and numerous other message boards still have his posts up, and he’s still registered on numerous sites as a member in good standing. Purepeptides.com was estimated to be selling between a half million dollars and a million dollars worth of product per year.
His real name is Chandan Manansingh, aka Chad Singh, aka Chandon J. Manansingh. He is a University of South Florida instructor in the English department who has a law degree but has not taken the bar exam yet. His legal representation is allegedly Rick Collins, esq., but I haven’t called Rick for confirmation, as a professional courtesy (he might not have a comment for me, and he may even be prohibited from confirming that Chandan is a client of his right now).
Right now I’m 100% certain of every word in this post. This is not a rumor, this is fact.