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Nailz Recalls Testifying During Vince McMahon Steroid Trial
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Nailz recently looked back at his testimony during the 1994 steroid trial against Vince McMahon. The WWE alumnus spoke with PWInsider’s Mike Johnson for Highspots TV, and you can see a couple of highlights below:
On testifying during the trial: “I told them to get lost. They called me up and said, ‘We need you to testify against Vince McMahon in the steroid trial,’ and I said, ‘I’m through with that guy, I don’t want to deal with anything.’ They said, ‘We can make you testify.’ A guy from the Department of Justice called and said, ‘You’re dealing with the Federal Government, we can make you do this.’ I said, ‘I’m sure you can, but I’m not doing it.’
“The next day, I went off to go to work at about seven in the morning and my house was surrounded by FBI agents. They handed me a subpoena and said, ‘you’re going to New York to testify.’ They called me up and said, ‘You got our subpoena?’ ‘Yeah, I told you, you can do what you want and you’re going to make me do it, but I’m not coming.’ He said, ‘we’ll give you X amount of dollars to come out and do it.’ I said, ‘I’m not doing it for that much. This is what I want.’ They said, ‘okay, we’ll pay you what you want.’ They basically paid me what I want to come out and do it. The first week I went out there, the trial ran longer, so I was going to testify on Thursday or Friday, they said, ‘it’s not going to happen this week. Stay here and we’ll get you in next week.’ I said, ‘I have to go back. I have a business to run.’ They flew me back home and next week they flew me back in.”
On whether he was surprised by the verdict: “Yeah, I was shocked. I was downstairs in a room and they had boxes full of evidence.”