Alex Rodriguez urinated on a wall of his cousin Yuri Sucart’s home to send a message and mark his territory, the cousin’s wife told the Daily News in an explosive interview at the couple’s Miami home.Carmen Sucart, whose husband, Yuri Sucart, is A-Rod’s estranged cousin and alleged steroid mule, blasted Rodriguez for accusing her deathly ill husband of trying to extort the troubled Yankee superstar.“He is the devil,” she said Thursday. “He is evil.”A-Rod treated Yuri Sucart like a “slave” and often peppered him with the N-word, the wife added.
Carmen Sucart said Rodriguez lied when he told Drug Enforcement Administration agents that a lawyer representing her husband sent the disgraced Yankee superstar a shakedown letter in 2012. She said Rodriguez first offered to pay the Sucart family to keep them silent about his drug use and extramarital womanizing.
“I want you to put this in the paper,” she said. “Alex is so poor, the only thing he has is money. He sleeps with his money, he will die with his money.”As his wife spoke, Yuri Sucart lay in a bed nearby, surrounded by a breathing machine and a mountain of pill bottles. Sucart can barely walk, and one of his legs, covered in sores, could be amputated, Carmen Sucart says. Daniel Portnoy Carmen Sucart, standing in the back patio of her Miami home, says that Alex Rodriguez urinated on a wall in the background.“I’m not doing so good,” Yuri Sucart, 52, said when asked how he was feeling.A spokesman for Rodriguez did not return a call for comment.According to his wife, Sucart barely survived a jail stay that followed his Aug. 5 arrest on seven felony drug charges. He was behind bars for 12 days before he was transferred to a hospital. Carmen says Yuri told her he was too weak to get up from the jail floor and guards found him “full of caca and pee-pee.”
Carmen Sucart says of her husband's famous cousin: 'Alex is so poor, the only thing he has is money. He sleeps with his money, he will die with his money.'
"He couldn’t stand up,” Carmen Sucart said, sobbing uncontrollably as she told her story. “Yuri told me, crying, ‘Carmen, I couldn’t stand up to get water.’ They didn’t even give water to him. He told me they threw the food under the little door.”Sucart was suffering from blood clots in his legs, his wife said, and he also required open-heart surgery the same week he had an operation on his legs.Carmen Sucart was cryptic when asked how her husband first became involved with Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch, who has pleaded guilty to steroid distribution and is accused of providing Rodriguez and other ballplayers with performance-enhancing drugs. Rodriguez signed a pact last January agreeing to cooperate with federal agents prosecuting Sucart, Bosch and others in exchange for limited immunity from prosecution. Yuri Sucart is accused of distributing steroids and growth hormone and being a middleman between Rodriguez and Bosch."The truth is gonna come out," Carmen said. "And I would like that Yuri, he is the right person to talk about what happened between Alex and him. I want Yuri to say how he met that doctor. Who sent Yuri to that office?”“It was not Yuri that brings (PEDs) from Santo Domingo,” she added, referring to A-Rod’s February 2009 claim that his cousin procured PEDs from the Dominican Republic for the slugger.Carmen Sucart decided to speak to The News after the government filed documents that allege her husband sent Rodriguez an “extortion letter” in December 2012 demanding $5 million for his silence on A-Rod’s relationship with Bosch. She characterized the letter as an attempt to reach a settlement after Rodriguez effectively destroyed the Sucarts’ livelihood in his 2009 steroid admission.Major League Baseball then banned Sucart from its clubhouses and training facilities, ending his career as a baseball personal assistant.Rodriguez allegedly vowed to make it up to his cousin by employing him for life. But in the spring of 2012, he came to the Sucart home with two women and three other men and offered $50,000 and an apartment if the Sucarts signed a confidentiality agreement. Carmen Sucart said she rejected the deal and refused to sign. “He was not angry,” she added, referring to Rodriguez’s demeanor when he came to her home with the confidentiality agreement. “He was arrogant. You know what he did? He peed outside on my wall, next to the pool. He didn’t ask for the bathroom. He go outside and he just pee right there. He came over, took his thing out and went right there.”The Sucarts hired Miami attorney Jeffrey Sonn not long after that meeting. Sonn, who penned the December 2012 letter to Rodriguez, told The News earlier this week that he was attempting to settle an employment dispute, not extort the Yankee third baseman.Rodriguez entered into a settlement with Sucart on June 5, 2013, agreeing to pay Sucart one $700,000 payment for his silence, in addition to three more payments made to Sucart that totalled $200,000, according to court papers filed in Miami last week.Sucart also received a $75,000-a-year job for five years and other perks.“That was the worst that (A-Rod) could tell me — ‘I’m going to destroy you. I got money. And my lawyer is ready for you,’” Carmen Sucart recalled Rodriguez saying.According to Carmen Sucart, her husband was on call for Rodriguez 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rodriguez, she said, came to treat her husband as a “slave, a servant.”Sucart is fighting seven federal charges alleging testosterone and human growth hormone distribution. He’s scheduled to go on trial in February. His attorney told The News that Rodriguez will be called to testify.Sucart’s wife says she looks forward to their day in court.“I would love that they just sit Alex in front of Yuri in court. I would love to see that. If that is going to happen, I would like to be sitting down there. You know what, people say money can buy everything,” she said. “You don’t doubt it, you know that. That’s going to happen because money can buy a lot. My lawyer right now is God. That’s my lawyer right now.”"I'm ready," she said. "I'm gonna be waiting for (Rodriguez) to come and destroy me. I'm strong. Yes. He got the money, but leave the rest to the One that is upstairs."Christian Red In Miami , Michael O’keeffe , Teri Thompson , Nathaniel Vinton/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A-Rod treated Yuri Sucart like a “slave” and often peppered him with the N-word, the wife added.
