By Mark Vester

Attorney Judd Burstein, who represents Shane Mosley in his defamation suit against BALCO founder Victor Conte, has been ripping up the press in various emails. Burstein sent an email to BoxingScene.com on Friday, irate over a story that ran on Thursday, which used an article from the New York Daily News to outline the recent events in the Mosley vs. Conte legal battle.

Conte released an edited video several days ago on Youtube where Mosley admitted under oath, during a 2009 deposition, to knowingly using the performance enhancing drug erythropoietin, or EPO, prior to his 2003 rematch with Oscar De La Hoya. Mosley filed the defamation suit in 2008, claiming that Conte lied to the press when he told them Mosley had full knowledge of the illegal and dangerous nature of the drugs he was taking.

Burstein posted two unedited videos on Youtube from Mosley's 2009 deposition, but the unedited videos don't change the facts of the edited video. Mosley admits in the video that he knew he was taking EPO prior to his appearance before a grand jury in connection with the BALCO scandal. Mosley had previously claimed that he didn't know it was EPO until a grand juror had told him.

"If I recall, I told the grand jury I was taking EPO, but they informed me to what, you know, what it was, whatever, I recall telling them that," Mosley said.

"But prior to going to the grand jury you knew you were taking EPO, right," asks Conte's attorney Tom Harvey.

"Yeah," says Mosley.

The New York Daily News was able to obtain another portion of the video deposition. A portion that neither Conte or Burstein have posted online, yet. In this partciular portion of the deposition, Mosley once again admits that he knew it was EPO and also admits that Conte had spoken to him about the drug.

HARVEY: "Who explained what the EPO was?"

MOSLEY: "Victor Conte."

HARVEY: "And who did he explain what the EPO was, who was his audience?"

MOSLEY: "Myself, Darryl Hudson, and –"

HARVEY: "This third gentleman?"

MOSLEY: "The third gentleman."

Burstein, angry over the original story that appeared in the New York Daily News, allegedly sent a threatening email to Nathaniel Vinton, a sports writer for the paper and co-author of the story.

"Nate, there will come a day when I have an opportunity to do serious harm to your career," Burstein wrote in the email. "You may not know at the time that it was me, but when you end up with your job lost and reputation destroyed, I (will) call to tell you it was me."

The email doesn't surprise this reporter, considering the nature of the email that I received from Burstein, where he called Vinton "a recognized shill for Victor Conte" and writer of "one-sided and dishonest" articles pertaining to the Mosley-Conte suit.

Burstein would later write, in the same email, that in his "opinion" - "there is only two rational explanations for Vinton’s conduct: Conte is paying him with money or for sex ." As I previously stated, I assume Burstein's meant to write " with sex " - unless the angry counselor believes Conte and Vinton are playing ball for the pink team.

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