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Mister Clean? Pacquiao steroid accuser 50 Cent was target in 2008 drug probe

Rap star and Floyd Mayweather Jr. shadow 50 Cent has been blasting out tweets accusing Manny Pacquiao, the fighter who so far the undefeated Mayweather has refused to fight, of being on illegal steroids.

50 Cent, who sold crack on the streets of South Jamaica, Queens, in his troubled teenaged years, is probably the last guy who should be accusing anyone else of using HGH or anabolic steroids, be that person an athlete, an entertainer or a candlestickmaker.

I’ve got a news flash for ?Fitty.? This is the age of Google, chief, this is not a time period when either the media or the public has total amnesia. It’s a time when people put their search modes to good use.

Mayweather’s buddy was busy this past weekend with his dirty social messaging, accusing Pacman of being a drug cheater with not one iota, not one scintilla of proof of course.

The rapper turned actor, who once blew his body up from six foot, 160 pounds to 240 pounds, may be doing what mental health professionals call ?projecting,? meaning accusing another of doing what he may have been doing.

50 Cent was among the stars named in a January, 2008, story published in the Albany Times-Union, the newspaper in New York’s state capital, who were subject to a criminal probe of usage of steroids and other ?enhancement drugs.?

Timbaland, Wyclef Jean, playwright-movie and TV producer Tyler Perry and popular singer Mary J. Blige were also involved in the criminal investigation.

The focus of the probe, on the distribution end, was a Florida doctor named Gary Brandwein.

He’s the doctor who supplied steroids and other verboten drugs to WWE star Chris Benoit, who went wild, killed his wife and son and then himself.

The newspaper reported that it was alleged that 50 Cent received steroids by mail at his mansion in Farmington, Ct., a massive house once owned by Iron Mike Tyson.

It was also alleged that, in 2006, a package addressed to a ?Michael Jordan? contained steroids when it was delivered to a Los Angles residence associated with 50 Cent.

The criminal probe seems to have hit a dead-end as no charges were filed against any of the celebrities named including 50 Cent.

But should 50 Cent be accusing Pacquiao?

Maybe people possibly living in HGH Houses should not throw the first syringe if you get my drift.

Pacquiao has never been named by the media as being a target of a criminal probe involving steroids and other banned drugs.

Maybe 50 Cent is just looking into his own mirror.

Maybe his next CD will be called “Get Pumped or Die Tryin.’

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