Federal prosecutors in New York have charged more than two dozen people for allegedly illegally doping racehorses.
A group of 27 people, including trainers and veterinarians, are accused of participating in the scheme. According to charging documents, the operation was "orchestrated to manufacture, distribute and receive adulterated and misbranded PEDs and to secretly administer those PEDs to racehorses."
Participants "manufactured, sold, shipped, delivered, received and administered at least thousands of units of PEDs."
The defendants ran horses at tracks in New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida and the United Arab Emirates, according to prosecutors.