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[theswordsman]

Federal authorities get recording linked to Armstrong case

Not new, but another syndicated source.

The grand jury involvement ramps up the pressure on McIlvain, according to one of the sources close to the investigation.

One of Armstrong's attorneys, Mark Fabiani, said, "Greg LeMond's illegal tape is the stalest of all the stale news to emerge from this inquiry so far: Ms. McIlvain disavowed this during her 2005 sworn deposition, and Mr. LeMond violated California law when he made the tape in yet another of his pathetic attempts to settle old cycling grudges."

McIlvain was in California during the conversation with LeMond. California law requires consent by both parties of a recording. Legal expert Laurie Levenson said in federal cases, however, taped conversations can be used as evidence as long as one of the parties — LeMond in this case — is aware of the taping.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/spo...uthorities-get-recording-linked-to-660508.php

 

[python]

laura weislo of cn contributes to the issue

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/lance-armstrong-on-defensive-in-federal-investigation

mostly known materiel except the cn too reached out to some involved players and confirmed their reactions.

 

[theswordsman]

Pierre Bordry of the AFLD is willing to turn over Armstrong's B samples from the 1999 Tour de France

Pierre Bordry said Thursday he will hand over Armstrong's "B'' samples from the 1999 Tour de France to Jeff Novitzky if the Food and Drug Administration agent makes an official request.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=11651249

"We can ask anything, and we will do ... We can order samples or to test ourselves," said Bordry.

El truco está en que Bordry dice que a su organización no se le permite pedir una nueva prueba de las muestras, debido a la limitación que impone la ley de la AMA de ocho años, pero que, a su entender, los fiscales federales de los EE.UU. The trick is that Bordry said that his organization is not allowed to ask for a new test samples due to restrictions imposed by the law of the AMA eight years, but, in his view, federal prosecutors U.S. no estarían sujetos a esta regla, ya que no están trabajando en un caso disciplinario. would not be subject to this rule, since they are not working on a disciplinary case

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=30554

"If U.S. prosecutors or the U.S. Agency asked us something in the context of mutual legal assistance we will of course", said President of the AFLD, at a press conference.

«Nous avons une collaboration étroite avec l'Agence, et cela ne date pas d'hier. "We have close cooperation with the Agency, and it does not date from yesterday. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes en relation quasi-permanente avec eux», at-il dit, sans vouloir en dire plus. Today, we are semi-permanent relationship with them, "he said, without wanting to say more.

«Je suis très impressionné par la qualité du travail des Américains en la matière, en particulier de l'agence américaine», at-il simplement ajouté. "I am very impressed by the quality of working Americans in this area, especially the American agency," he added simply.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/sports/au...e-francaise-antidopage-tres-impressionnee.php

"If U.S. prosecutors are asking something in the context of mutual legal assistance, we will of course," said Pierre Bordry Thursday, adding that he is ready to analyze the B samples of urine taken from the Armstrong Tour 1999.

On n'aurait pas "forcément (à) envoyer les échantillons (aux Etats-Unis), on peut les analyser nous-mêmes", at-il dit à propos de cette possible collaboration avec la justice américaine, à l'occasion d'une conférence de presse présentant les résultats de l'AFLD au premier semestre 2010. It would not "necessarily (to) send the samples (United States), we can analyze ourselves," he said about this possible collaboration with American justice, on the occasion of a press conference presenting the results of the AFLD the first half of 2010.

The eight-year rule "is not valid" in this case, said Pierre Bordry. "Dans sa démarche, le procureur américain ne va pas rechercher le dopage, il va rechercher les fraudes, les choses comme ça. Ses limites ne sont pas les mêmes que les nôtres. Je crois qu'il en a moins que nous (des limites)", estime-t-il. "In its approach, the U.S. Attorney will not seek doping, it will search for fraud, things like that. Its boundaries are not the same as ours. I think it has less than us (limits ), "said he.

"Si on a gardé les échantillons anciens d'une personne dénommée (Armstrong), c'est parce qu'il y avait des procédures judiciaires en cours. Il ya eu dans le passé des procédures judiciaires qui se sont développées, qui ont abouti ou pas abouti, mais qui ont fait qu'il ya eu des réquisitions au laboratoire depuis très longtemps. Ce qui fait que le laboratoire a pu garder sous certaines conditions, sous contrôles du juge, sous scellés, les échantillons", rappelle Bordry. "If we kept the old samples to a specified person (Armstrong) because there was litigation pending. There has been spent in legal proceedings that have been developed, which led or unsuccessful, but have there been in the lab requisition for a very long time. The result is that the laboratory was kept under certain conditions, under control of the judge, sealed samples, "recalls Bordry.

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actu...queteurs-americains-concernant-armstrong.html

 

[thehog]

Federal prosecutors have obtained a telephone conversation secretly recorded six years ago by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond in which he and a woman close to Lance Armstrong discuss her being present in 1996 when others say Armstrong told his cancer doctors about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The tape recording and transcript of that conversation are expected to be presented to a federal grand jury in Los Angeles looking into charges of widespread drug use in professional cycling, according to sources close to the investigation who are not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Prosecutors have subpoenaed the woman who sources say is Stephanie McIlvain, a longtime liaison to Armstrong for one of his major sponsors, the eyewear company Oakley Inc.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lance-armstrong-20100916,0,2851394.story

 

[theswordsman]

“I’m not going to lie,” McIlvain is heard saying on the tape recording. “You know I was in that room. I heard it.”

She later adds: “If I lie, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. You know because, I, too, know quite a bit ’cause Lance and I were close, you know. But I definitely won’t lie about that because it’s public knowledge. A lot of people know about it, you know.”

“For someone to have that much influence on people is scary,” she said, adding: “Well, the whole thing of it is, Greg, is there is so many people protecting him that it is just sickening, you know.”

She goes on to say that the part of Armstrong’s story that makes her the maddest is “how many people he has given false hope to.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/sports/cycling/17armstrong.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

 

[theswordsman]

Velonation interview with Betsy Andreu

VN: What sort of impact has this had on yourself and Frankie?

BA: I have been smeared relentlessly by Lance and some writers he counts on to perpetuate the myth and ignore the truth. Because I refuse to be a doormat and let him assassinate my character in the name of "letting it go", it has cost us financially as well as emotionally. Financially because I am a liability for Frankie since I stand up to a powerful figure in cycling. Emotionally because of the outright non-truths and misrepresentations perpetuated by those in the media that Lance counts on, as well as his PR people to whom he pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to smear me/us.

On a personal note, my mom was the only parent who supported us to tell the truth under oath. We have some of the best friends in the world with their unwavering support too.

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It even starts way before then. How is it possible that a guy has testicular cancer and it is not discovered? He is supposed to be getting drug tested, and yet there is not a spike in his hormone levels [showing up]. Well, there has to have been a spike, because he had cancer raiding through his body. So how come that didn’t show up in any test?

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5...vement-in-the-Floyd-Landis-investigation.aspx

 

[thehog]

Velonation interview with Betsy Andreu


http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5...vement-in-the-Floyd-Landis-investigation.aspx

This needs its own thread:

VN: Floyd Landis has obviously been a big part of this investigation. Do you know how he is doing – have you been in contact with him?

BA: Infrequent contact…I think I spoke to him on the phone maybe once, or twice. When I asked him how he was doing, he said ‘I have good days and bad days.’ The words out of his mouth were, ‘if I could say sorry to every single person I hurt, I would.’ He really feels bad about that.

And again, look at Floyd’s upbringing – I knew he wouldn’t be able to live the lie, and I didn’t even know the guy.

VN: So you think he’s better off now than he was before then?

BA: Oh, sure….the lie will eat you alive. Look at what it is going on with Stefanie [McIlvain].

 

[kielbasa]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/papp-confirms-additional-doping-investigations-underway

"...but unlike at least one of his colleagues in the US pro peloton, Jonathan [Chodroff] stood up and took it like a man". - J. Papp

One of the top 5 in TofU Stage 5?

 

[thehog]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqa3r07mOSTHXWp-onbvKQ4XhxswD9I9TML03

More support from US cycling.

 

[theswordsman]

A statement from Floyd Landis about the conference

http://www.newcyclingpathway.com/news/blog/statement-by-floyd-landis-18-september-2010

Here's a sampling:

That said, my knowledge and participation in the culture that the conference is seeking to improve, and my work with the conference organizers in that regard, is exactly the type of partnership that can and will deliver effective, progressive, relevant analysis that can be used to begin the process of repairing the currently broken sport of cycling and its governing institutions.

Indeed, the behavior and comments of the persons and organizations that seek to shut down the conference as a consequence of my participation demonstrate that they are interested only in selfishly perpetuating their own positions and purported authority at the expense of progressive reform and in total disregard of the sport’s long-term interests, including those of the riders and fans, which they are charged to protect.

Attempts by others to make that process into something other than I have described above, and to discredit my current efforts by pointing to my past mistakes (which I have acknowledged), simply represent their continuing, misplaced, misguided and fear-driven efforts to temporarily sustain a manufactured truth that does not square with reality of their life.

 

[theswordsman]

Abusive voicemails left for Betsy Andreu by Lance Armstrong pal become evidence in federal probe

VOICEMAIL #1
"I hope somebody breaks a baseball bat over your head. I also hope that one day you have adversity in your life, and you have some type of tragedy that will (inaudible) your failing, that will definitely make an impact on you, will make you more softer in your life, and will make you realize that life is about other than going after people that you actually hate. It's pathetic Betsey. I thought you were a better person than that, and I'm so saddened that you're not. I've moved on. I don't have any contact with Lance, I have no contact with you. But you just keep going and going and going. So sad. Go ahead and post that on the Internet. OK? Go ahead and post it. Because you're such a shallow b----."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...e_voicemails_now_part_of_armstrong_probe.html

 

[cyclelicious]

9/16/2010
Barry Bonds' Hunter Cheated

Agent Jeff Novitzky, the crusader who has spent nearly a decade working to put Bonds behind bars for allegedly lying about steroids, has been found to have grossly violated the 4th Amendment, prohibiting unlawful searches and seizures, in a landmark case on the dangers of an overzealous investigator.

This week the court upheld earlier rulings that Novitzky illegally seized the computer records of roughly a hundred Major League players in 2004.

 

[theswordsman]

Trek versus LeMond document, credit to Tubeless.
Can't copy & paste it but I'll verify my typing.

54. In 2000, Julien DeVriese, a mechanic who once worked for Mr. LeMond and who was the head mechanic for Mr. Armstrong's team at the time, told Mr. LeMond that Mr. Verbruggen had received a $500,000 payoff related to the back-dated prescription.

http://www.trekbikes.com/pdf/media/en/03202008_Lemond.pdf

 

[thehog]

More feelgood stuff from the master of disaster: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iHfPy0hikWdTK4bX5z0qk-bMEhPwD9IBSGQ81


I can't believe they mention the I support Lance website like it was a good thing!

And a "Support for Lance" website is appealing to the "millions of Lance Armstrong fans all over the world — it's time that this international hero gets some support when he needs it most!" (The Armstrong camp says the cyclist is not behind the website and has not been contacted by the site's operators.)

 

[theswordsman]

A U.S. federal probe into doping in cycling involving Lance Armstrong’s former team may be slowed by legal hurdles in pursuing the inquiry in Europe, sports lawyers said.

About half of the cycling team’s staff was from Europe. U.S. investigators would require assistance from foreign judicial authorities to make progress, according to Rodrigo Garcia, a lawyer at Laffer Abogados in Madrid who represented three cyclists in a blood-doping investigation in Spain known as Operacion Puerto.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...gation-may-stutter-in-europe-lawyers-say.html

 

[thehog]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/09/lance_armstrong-gavin_newsom_m.php

Worth a read with some new titbits.

 

[theswordsman]

LOS ANGELES — An attorney for a longtime friend of Lance Armstrong's who appeared before a federal grand jury says the woman testified she never heard the cyclist admit he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Thomas H. Bienert Jr. says Stephanie McIlvain testified before the jurors all day Wednesday and told them she never heard the seven-time Tour de France winner admit to doping. He says McIlvain also told jurors she never felt pressured by either Armstrong or anyone connected to cyclist to lie.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKB9kJFPQK1-D9n_HllA_3nhyTMgD9IDDFVG1

Bienert said McIlvain was truthful when she told the jury that she never heard Armstrong admit that he doped.

"Any comments she made suggesting the contrary were simply gossip, speculation and opinion with people she thought were her friends, like Betsy Andreu," Bienert said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKB9kJFPQK1-D9n_HllA_3nhyTMgD9IDDSIG0

Stephanie McIlvain, the liaison to Armstrong employed by sponsor Oakley Inc., endured what her attorney Tom Bienert described as a "very emotional" day as she spent more than seven hours before the grand jury panel with Assistant U.S. Atty. Doug Miller and Jeff Novitzky, the Food and Drug Administration agent leading the investigation into alleged systematic drug use in cycling.

Bienert said McIlvain "testified truthfully. Most of what she was asked about was between five and 14 years old, so she didn't have the greatest recall.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lance-armstrong-20100923,0,2785856.story

 

[DAOTEC]

LOS ANGELES September 28, 2010

ABC news: Armstrong team staffer to talk to jury

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=11751158

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Uh, I think it's the understatement of the year to call Allen Lim a "staffer". This guy is potentially one of the most culpable individuals in this entire investigation. He's a Ph.D exercise physiologist and training expert that Floyd says helped him dope to win the Tour, and reportedly has it backed up with his detailed diaries and training data. Lim's testimony alone is worthy of it's own thread. If Steph sat in there grilled for 8 hours, I can only imagine how long it will take them to talk with Lim.

 

[thehog]

Last week McIlvain reportedly testified in a grand jury room on the 13th floor of the downtown L.A. federal courthouse for more than seven hours. That is a very long time. During the BALCO San Francisco grand jury, a tag-team of prosecutors interrogated Barry Bonds in repeated attempts to catch him committing perjury. Total time in the box: 2 hours and 53 minutes. New York Yankee Jason Giambi testified for 56 minutes. Brother Jeremy for 29 minutes. Bonds' San Francisco teammate, Armando Rios testified for 74 minutes, and Benito Santiago, a scant 40 minutes. All told five key ball players testified a total of six hours and 12 minutes.

Seven hours is a long time to grill a sunglass rep. And that's not all. There are rumors that McIlvain, the mother of an autistic son, may have been sweated before she entered that Los Angeles grand jury room. Earlier this summer, Agent Novitzky reportedly made an unannounced early morning visit to her home.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-littman/lance-armstrong-witnesses_b_742705.html

 

[flicker]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/09/lance_armstrong-gavin_newsom_m.php

Worth a read with some new titbits.

Thanks for the link HOG. I see on the left corner they are having the hemp, fair, Folsom St. festival and the Fetish fair happening in SF. Care to join me there and have a conference on Armstrongs' doping the peloton?

 

[Escarabajo]

Sorry if it was posted already. But just in case. here is what all the ex-teammates had to say about the doping:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...th.armstrong.1st.ld.writethru.2006/index.html

I am particurarly dissapointed at Peña my compatriot. But I guess he does not want to pick up any fights.

What about Heras. He is in the blacklist. he should be ****ed. Here is what he said:

"I have nothing to say. It is an ugly subject, a disagreeable subject and I don't want to talk about it. It is respectable to not talk about it,'' Heras says.

 

[Colm.Murphy]

At USADA Science Conference, Kohl speaks:

http://www.fanhouse.com/2010/10/04/tour-de-france-not-winnable-without-drugs-former-rider-says/

"I can never come back," Kohl said. "It's not possible if you say the truth."

Getting some disturbing info coming out of Denmark. Hoping to share soon.

 

[Nick777]

Related to Lance's 99 samples. Thought I might throw this old one in. Lance has been using 'Witch Hunt' for a while.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2006/05/news/uci-armstrong-and-wada-react-to-vrijman-report_9933

 

[DAOTEC]

Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 9:19 PM | Plasticizer litmus for LA

Lance Armstrong blood and urine samples subject to new anti-doping test

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...ct_to_new_antidoping_test_.html#ixzz11XcAo1Kl