Overview
- SNAC System announced Monday on social media that Conte died at 75, and no cause of death was disclosed.
- The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative was raided in 2003, launching a far‑reaching federal investigation into performance‑enhancing drugs.
- Conte pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiracy to distribute banned substances and money laundering and served four months in federal prison.
- BALCO distributed undetectable steroids known as the cream and the clear, implicating stars including Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Marion Jones, with convictions that reached Jones, Tammy Thomas and Dana Stubblefield.
- After prison, Conte repositioned himself through SNAC as a legal training and nutrition adviser to elite boxers such as Terence Crawford and Claressa Shields, and he disclosed a pancreatic cancer diagnosis earlier this year.