Evil, scum-sucking horse-killer Jason Servis pleaded guilty on Friday to nail down a mere four years in federal prison and a few bucks in fines. It is nowhere near the “maximum security” sentence he deserves. The drug-doping scandal was “massive.” The New Jersey-based dope dealer was “f**king pumping and pumping and fuming every f**king horse [that] runs today.” Including prize winning thoroughbred Maximum Security, disqualified from the Saudi Cup for “roid rage.”
Servis skates from feds
A federal judge is actually going to allow Jason Servis to get off with only 4 short years in prison. At most. He pleaded guilty to only two counts. Both tied to “adulterated and misbranded drugs.” Ones which were “banned from use in the sport.”
Those are nothing compared with what the wiretaps revealed. Even though Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams laid out how the monster’s “conduct represents corruption at the highest levels of the racehorse industry,” he got away with it. The trainer “abdicated his responsibilities to the animals, to regulators and the public.”
Prosecutors alleged that Servis “had veterinarians order hundreds of bottles of the performance-enhancing drug SGF-1000 for use on his horses despite its illegal status. He covered up the $300-a-bottle purchases through bogus billings under the line item ‘Acupuncture & Chiropractic.‘”
Horses under his control “were also given an adulterated and misbranded dose of prescription drug clenbuterol, obtained without any valid prescriptions.” Those were the counts they got him to admit.
Servis allegedly “used the drug on his horses for 1,082 races between February 2018 and February 2020.”
He was caught on wiretaps discussing whether the drug would turn up in testing, with a crooked veterinarian promising “they don’t even have a test for it.”
Sick and twisted revelations
Speaking of wiretaps, News Hour First reported extensively on those when the story first broke. Along with Servis, His associate Jorge Navarro, trainer of XY Jet, featured prominently in the recordings. In all, 27 “conspirators” were involved. The special “cocktail” of drugs they were doping race winners with would have made John Belushi just say “no.”
They could “increase red blood cell count, increase stamina and endurance, relieve pain and reduce joint inflammation.” That made the superhorses run themselves to death. “They experienced cardiac issues, overexertion leading to leg fractures, increased risk of injury and, in some cases, death.” XY Jet died of an apparent heart attack.
In the recordings, Navarro, XY Jet’s trainer, was caught talking to the man he hired to “quietly dispose of the bodies of dead horses” so the deaths wouldn’t need to be reported. “You know how many f**king horses he (Navarro) f**king killed and broke down that I made disappear… You know how much trouble he could get in… if they found out… [about] the six horses we killed?”
More like 26 when you add them all up. The name Servis was also mentioned frequently. Thomas Guido III and Conor Flynn were charged with smuggling the shipments and administering some of the drugs. When one horse that Guido doped fell over dead, Grasso remarked, “I’ve seen that happen 20 times.”
Navarro was “relieved” that Servis “gave him a heads up that racing officials were getting nosy.” Good thing they got the tip because the track official “would’ve caught our asses f**king pumping and pumping and fuming every f**king horse [that] runs today.”
To hide the scam, they “had an elaborate scheme to change labels on bottles along with layers of helpful suppliers and facilitators to carefully disguise their efforts.” For instance, “Veterinarian Louis Grasso, and his out of state partner Donato Poliseno, made up the mislabeled bottles.” Grasso “also provided snake venom as a pain blocking substance.“
