Feds say Florida man channeled 'Dr. Toi' in Olympic doping scheme
Paul Askew used social media photos for a female alter-ego that encouraged testosterone injections for better performance, a court filing claims.
A Jacksonville man accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to a onetime Olympic athlete used a fake, apparently female, virtual medical persona he’d cultivated for years, a federal prosecutor is arguing. Paul Askew is scheduled to plead guilty May 26 to a sports-doping conspiracy apparently centered on supplying banned testosterone injections that damaged track star Marvin Bracy-Williams’ career. A prosecutor’s court filing says Askew administered a first shot to a track athlete identified only as M.
B. W. after being introduced to the athlete via text message from “Dr.
Toi,” a fictional medical professional. ‘“Dr. Toi’ was the creation of [the] Defendant, using altered social media photographs of … the spouse of a professional football player,” Assistant U.
S. Attorney Patrick Flanigan wrote in a “ factual basis ” explanation of the case filed with U. S.