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'Should I send the feds a thank-you card?' Victor Conte revisits BALCO scandal

August 11, 2023 by Josh Peter

Victor Conte's Bentley makes a powerful cameo in the Netflix documentary "Untold: Hall of Shame" almost 20 years after federal agents raided Conte's infamous BALCO Laboratories.

The film, set to be released Tuesday, shows Conte wiping down his luxury car – a 2023 Bentayga S that cost $275,000, he told USA TODAY Sports.

Conte, 73, spent four months in prison for his part in the steroids scandal that left baseball slugger Barry Bonds standing accused of using performance-enhancing drugs and implicated Olympic track and field star Marion Jones and many other professional athletes. While Bonds, Jones and others never recovered from the negative publicity, Conte suggests he benefited from it.

 

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