WWE News: Former Fox News correspondent pleads guilty to steroid distribution to WWE wrestlers, By: James Caldwell
 
July 25, 2007

Former FOX News correspondent Claire Godfrey pled guilty to steroid distribution in Albany (N.Y.) court on Tuesday. To avoid a prison sentence, she agreed to co-operate in an ongoing investigation into steroid distribution. Investigators have said that Godfrey sold steroids to two WWE wrestlers, but Chris Benoit was not included.

The report, in the New York Daily News, says Godfrey wrote $1.3 million worth of prescriptions for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to two WWE wrestlers and one bodybuilder without every seeing them for a patient visit. She reportedly earned $50 for each prescription, and earned a total of $200,000 for writing scripts over a seven-to-eight month period.

Godfrey is expected to testify against the Orlando-based pharmaceutical company, Signature Pharmacy, which is as the center of a prescription drug distribution ring over the Internet that was subject to a federal raid earlier this year.

Assistant District Attorney told the N.Y. Daily News: "This is an important plea. If this case ever goes to trial, Claire Godfrey will be a star witness."

WWE spokesman Gary Davis said: "We applaud the efforts of government officials to shut down the illegal use of steroids and those doctors who illegally prescribe them."

JC ANALYSIS: Barring some sort of out-of-court settlement by Signature Pharmacy - with names and details sealed from public viewing - this is only the tip of the iceberg on what will come out from the steroid distribution ring that has two WWE wrestlers specifically named in this plea bargain to go with the SI.com report earlier this year naming several current and former WWE wrestlers linked to the Pharmacy.