It may have gone quiet for Alex Rodriguez, but it’s getting noisy – and ugly – for Ryan Braun.
Braun, who was suspended 65 games by MLB for his role in the Biogenesis scandal, is being sued by former college friend and law student Ralph Sasson for defamation. Sasson is charging that Braun and his attorney asked him to help discover information that lead eventually helped Braun escape his initial PED suspension in 2001. Sasson says Braun was delinquent in paying him and defamed him to friends.
In the discovery process of filing this suit, Sasson has made even more damning claims against the Brewers star, according to a NESN report.
According to the court filings first reported by NESN, Sasson is trying to get Braun to cop to using PEDs since his days at the University of Miami. As well, he wants Braun to admit he “violated NCAA rules of amateurism by accepting cash and check payments,’’ and engaged in “academic misconduct.’’
And just to get a little more personal, Sasson accuses Braun of having “engaged in infidelities in every amorous relationship’’ he’s had, including with his fiancée, model Larisa Fraser.
Prior to a civil trial, both parties attempt to obtain evidence from each other in the discovery process. In this case, Sasson has put through a “request for admissions’’ to Braun’s lawyers for them to either confirm or deny. If a person lies in response, it could be lead to a perjury charge.
Braun, who has never publicly admitted to PED use, reportedly will come clean about his past soon.