Convicted steroid trafficker injecting Rob Ford with fitness advice

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s new fitness consultant is a convicted steroid trafficker who is in the midst of serving a 12-year coaching and training ban in Canada for other steroid-related offences.

The head of Canada’s largest city has been telling media recently that he has been spending up to two hours each day with a new fitness trainer to get back in shape. The trainer he has been referring to seems to have been Valerio Moscariello, who has spent time in prison for steroid trafficking charges.

On Tuesday evening Moscariello, the owner of Team Body Pro Athletics, posted a picture to Twitter of himself with the Mayor on a treadmill in the background.

The photo, which has since been deleted, was captioned “Putting Toronto mayor Rob Ford through a Valerio workout.”

In October of 2005, Moscariello was sentenced to five months in prison and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute steroids. At time he was operating the website www.juiceworld.com, which has since been closed.

“A Canadian citizen residing in Henderson, Nev., has been sentenced to five months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for his guilty plea to possession with the intent to distribute anabolic steroids,” wrote the United States Attorney’s Office in 2005 in a press release about Moscariello’s sentencing.

He was arrested after police seized anabolic steroids, syringes, vials and $16,000USD in cash from the home he was living at in Henderson, Nev., at the time.

Five years later, in 2010, Moscariello was handed a 12-year ban from all levels of sport in Canada by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) for helping administer steroids on Amanda Galle, a Olympic hopeful boxer from Mississauga, Ont.