US Department of Justice to join lawsuit against Lance Armstrong

[IDemo]

Source: NBC News

Lance Armstrong faces a powerful new adversary -- the United States government.

The Justice Department will notify a federal court Friday that it is joining one of his former racing teammates in suing him for using performance-enhancing drugs during the Tour de France, legal sources told NBC News.

The government is signing on to a lawsuit filed two years ago by Floyd Landis, one of Armstrong's former Tour de France teammates who has already admitted cheating. Among its claims: Landis saw Armstrong store and then re-inject his own blood to boost his performance, and Armstrong twice gave Landis banned hormones before races.

The government’s legal theory in joining the lawsuit is that when Armstrong agreed to race for the U.S. Postal Service team a decade ago in the Tour de France, he defrauded the government, violating its strict ban on illegal drugs, all the while claiming he did not use them.

Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/22/17057708-sources-us-department-of-justice-to-join-lawsuit-against-lance-armstrong?lite

[graham4anything]

1. Good! The post office can use the money

[Bucky]

2. This is what happens when you elect a socialist to nationalize healthcare

You can see why Obama caused this; it was the First Lady's obsession with ridding the world of good old American fat that drove this poor Texas boy to dope himself. The Obamas are to blame for everything!

[russspeakeasy]

3. Gee, our DOJ is really consistent isn't it ?

[hughee99]

4. If only Armstrong had gotten huge bonuses for nearly crashing the entire national economy,

he wouldn't have to worry about things like this.

[IDemo]

7. +1

No lie.

[amandabeech]

11. Is someone high up in the Justice Department a major fan

of bicycle racing?

This is a ridiculous use of taxpayer money and attorney time given that the wall street gangsters run free.

[wordpix]

16. +1000 & if he had tortured "enemy combatants," started 2 wars for no good reason & outed a CIA

officer working on protecting the US from WMDs, he wouldn't need to worry, either.

Eric Holder just keeps getting worse and worse.

[MynameisBlarney]

5. Why?

This is unnecessary.
And it's not like there aren't MUCH bigger fish to fry.

[forestpath]

6. How nice they don't have anything better to do.

[rachel1]

8. It's time for him to face the long and overdue consequences

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. Looks like Armstrong should have raced for Goldman-Sachs or HSBC bank

The DOJ never fucks with those people.

[geek tragedy]

10. Our banks have been using performance-enhancing accounting tricks for

decades now.

[wordpix]

17. kudos

[tabasco]

12. Why is the USPS wasting money on a cycling team sponsorship in the first place? n/t

[midnight]

13. A bit off topic, but if fraud is this serious, why is the Federal govt. not going after the bankers

who via liar loans cheated the American Tax payer...

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Economist_US_collapse_driven_by_fraud_0404.html

[benld74]

14. Of ALL the things DOJ could put resources on, THIS is what they choose?

[madokie]

15. Burn his ass

I have no time for cheaters.