Sly, who had worked at the Guyer clinic, had made his initial accusations against the Mannings months earlier in conversations that Al Jazeera secretly tape-recorded with the help of a British track athlete posing as a potential buyer of performance-enhancing drugs.
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But it’s not the first investigation in the process. They hired investigators to identify, locate and interrogate Sly, and sent a lawyer to examine Peyton and Ashley’s medical records at the Guyer Institute of Molecular Medicine in Indianapolis. When the National Football League announced it would investigate the allegations on its own, Manning said he welcomed the investigation into the “garbage” report. Days later, Sly recanted his story and alleged that everything was a lie in order to increase his business standing.
Peyton Manning, the future Hall of Fame Denver Broncos quarterback, hired two mysterious “men in black” to intimidate a witness who had made allegations that the banned steroid HGH was shipped to Manning’s home, according to a new Washington Post report.
According to the report, Sly’s lawyer says Sly is cooperating with the ongoing NFL and MLB investigations into the documentary and that Manning’s own investigation has not interfered with the NFL and MLB investigations.
After they told their daughter to call 911 the night of December 22, Randall and Judith Sly stepped outside to talk to the strangers, who clarified they were private investigators, not cops.
Manning has since hired Ari Fleischer as a crisis management consultant and while the majority of the story has been rebuffed, Fleischer did confirm that HGH was sent to Ashley Manning.
“When somebody accuses you of doing something you didn’t do – and Al Jazeera refused to tell us who it was – it’s only logical to say, ‘Who is it, and why are they doing this?”. Peyton Manning initially dismissed the allegations as “garbage”.
“My name is Charles Sly”, he told the investigators, according to the Washington Post. “So it’s up to you now if you want to believe that Ashley Manning was rocking the HGH or whether it was for the man recovering from neck surgeries”.
A lawyer working for Peyton Manning also visited the Guyer Institute where he combed through the medical records of both Peyton and Ashley Manning.
The intern, Charles Sly, recanted his statements, which were recorded without his knowledge.
“Guyer’s a small place”, Fleischer said.
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Manning has said he would wait until after the season – which will be after the Broncos play Sunday in Super Bowl 50 against the Carolina Panthers here at Levi’s Stadium – before he decided whether he will sue.
