--- --- # Prosecutors Allege A-Rod Paid Cousin for Silence Over PEDs  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 4, 2014 6:32 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 4, 2014 6:32 PM UTC Yankees star Alex Rodriguez allegedly paid a cousin almost $1 million to keep him from discussing the athlete’s use of performance enhancing drugs, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed last week, according to a [report](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9bb3970f234f419fba03414c031a480b/us-prosecutors-rod-paid-cousin-be-quiet) on Tuesday. Prosecutors allege in the documents that Yuri Sucart, who was Rodriguez’s personal assistant, had requested $5 million and a house in exchange for his silence, the Associated Press reports. In response, they add, Rodriguez gave Sucart $900,000 and provided him access to a home and car, as well as other benefits. Officials released the documents after Sucart, who was charged in the summer with conspiring to distribute human growth hormone and testosterone, requested a public defender in the case. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9bb3970f234f419fba03414c031a480b/us-prosecutors-rod-paid-cousin-be-quiet)\] A-Rod Cousin Steroids: Prosecutors Allege Star Player Paid for Silence ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3556603/a-rod-cousin-silence-performance-enhancing-drugs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3556603/a-rod-cousin-silence-performance-enhancing-drugs/"},"headline":"Prosecutors Allege A-Rod Paid Cousin for Silence Over PEDs","datePublished":"2014-11-04T18:32:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:12:54.952Z","description":"Almost $1 million spread over several wire payments","url":"https://time.com/3556603/a-rod-cousin-silence-performance-enhancing-drugs/","keywords":["Baseball","Sports topic","Alex Rodriguez","yankees","steroids"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3556603/a-rod-cousin-silence-performance-enhancing-drugs/","name":"Prosecutors Allege A-Rod Paid Cousin for Silence Over PEDs"}}]}] ```