Peyton Manning had private investigators question Charlie Sly

Peyton Manning reportedly hired two private investigators to look into the source of the HGH allegations against him five days before they were published by Al Jazeera.

According to the Washington Post, Manning’s legal team hired private investigators Brian Bauer and Ben Ford to question Charlie Sly. The two men went to the home of Sly’s parents on Dec. 22, and the couple initially had their daughter — Sly’s younger sister Kaitlyn — call the police. When police arrived and the investigators explained that they were working for “a party interested in the Al Jazeera documentary,” the Slys agreed to speak with them the following day when Charlie returned home.

Sly’s laywer, Travis Cohron, said the discussion with Manning’s investigators was “very cordial.” Sly told the men that he made up everything he said when he was being secretly recorded for the Al Jazeera documentary, and Sly and Cohron later decided Charlie should create a video recanting all of his statements, which you can see here.

Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary and crisis management expert that Manning hired, insists that Manning’s private investigators did not coerce Sly into recanting his statements. Sly recorded the video the day after they met.

Fleischer has confirmed that Manning’s wife Ashley did, in fact, receive a shipment of medication from the Guyer Institute in Indianapolis, though he would not say whether the medication was human growth hormone. Manning has not denied that his wife received shipments of HGH, though he insists he never took anything that was prescribed to her. Al Jazeera claims Ashley Manning received the shipments illegally.

As we previously explained, there are more than a few red flags associated with the founder of the Guyer Institute.