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 BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) - Victor Conte, the Johnny Appleseed of designer steroids, is back in business. Witness the new $190,000 Bentley parked outside the building that once housed the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, where federal agents uncovered a massive steroids ring and sparked professional sports' highest-profile drug scandal.
Since leaving prison little more than a year ago, Conte and his 22-year-old daughter have revived a nutritional supplements business he launched two decades ago called Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning — SNAC for short.
They're mainly hawking a zinc- and magnesium-based powder called ZMA that's a staple for serious weightlifters who use it to repair damaged tissue and to sleep better. It's legal and available through about two dozen distributors.
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