NY Times: FBI Investigates Tiger's Doctor For Supplying Performance Enhancing Drugs To Athletes

Back in October, Bob Weeks of Scoregolf.com noted that Tiger Woods might face scrutiny for his association with Dr. Anthony Galea. Now the New York Times's Don Van Natta Jr., Michael Schmidt and Ian Austin report the FBI is investigating Galea for possibly supplying illegal performance enhancing drugs to athletes.

As for his ties to Tiger, he is known for working on rehab and employing his cutting edge and legal platelet therapy:

Dr. Galea said Mr. Woods was referred to him by the golfer’s agents at Cleveland-based International Management Group, who were alarmed at the slow pace of Mr. Woods’s rehabilitation after knee surgery in June 2008. The doctor said he flew to Orlando, Fla., at least four times to give Mr. Woods the platelet therapy at his home in Windemere, Fla., in February and March of this year. When asked for comment about Mr. Woods’s involvement with Dr. Galea, Mark Steinberg, of I.M.G., responded in an e-mail message: “I would really ask that you guys don’t write this? If Tiger is NOT implicated, and won’t be, let’s please give the kid a break.”

I know it's been a long few weeks for Steinberg, but I think he could have done better than, "I would really ask that you guys don't write this?" and "give the kid a break?"

The kid?

Dr. Galea’s legal problems began in late September when his assistant was stopped entering the United States from Canada. Her car was searched by border-crossing guards and authorities found Dr. Galea’s medical bag, which contained four drugs, including human growth hormone, Dr. Galea said. “It was for my own use,” he said.

The authorities also seized his laptop computer and a sonogram machine, he said. His assistant, he said, often drove him around and that was why his belongings were in her car. The assistant, whom Dr. Galea declined to identify, has stopped working at his clinic and, he said, is now cooperating with the authorities.

Cooperating witness and a seized laptop?