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If team directors really were behind a U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team doping operation, they could even be accused of defrauding the government. That's because team sponsorship contracts had a poison-pill clause allowing the Postal Service to immediately cease providing funding to the team in the event of management-involved doping.
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http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-05-26/news/floyd-landis-doping-scandal-the-s-f-connection/

McQuaid, US Postal investigation

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=5829#ancre1
 
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It was written by Matt Smith, columnist at our sister paper, SF Weekly, who in 2005 was pointing out that by riding for a team sponsored by an entity of the U.S. government (the Postal Service), Armstrong put himself into a special kind of jeopardy. Wrote Smith:

The Postal Service is considered a government agency under an 1863 federal law called the False Claims Act designed to root out fraud against the government. That means that any insider who believes he has evidence that would hold up in court showing Armstrong used drugs while his team management knew yet quietly looked the other way could potentially reap a bonanza under legal provisions that give whistle-blowers a share of any lawsuit's proceeds.

"Like most cycling fans I would be reluctant to believe Lance Armstrong, or any other member of the U.S. Postal Service Team, used performance-enhancing drugs. But if that were indeed the case, and the company was aware of that at the time, the company may very well have exposure for treble damages under the False Claims Act," says Paul Scott, a former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney in San Francisco specializing in cases involving the act.
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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/ny_times_gets_t.php
 
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Yesterday, CW received a call from Bob Hamman, the president of SCA Promotions, a sports promotions company that based in Dallas, Texas. In layman's terms, Tailwind Sports took out a series of insurance policies that would guarantee hefty pay-outs for each of Armstrong's Tour de France wins. By the time of his sixth win, in 2004, the payment due was $10m. However, after the publication of the book LA Confidentiel by David Walsh and Pierre Ballester, which contained allegations of doping against Armstrong, SCA withheld part of the payment. A lengthy legal battle ensued and, eventually, SCA decided to settle out of court and paid up.
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http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/470777/the-wednesday-comment.html
 
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Information Floyd Landis recently gave to the United States Anti-Doping Agency about how cyclists have and still are getting around the biological passport analysis system could have an immediate impact on the sport, according to at least two people with direct knowledge of the system.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=5222488

The link below deals with Armstrong's Blood values from 2009 Giro & Tour. From September but has connection with ESPN article

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/analysis-armstrongs-tour-blood-levels-debated
 
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The nature — and even existence — of the reported federal investigation into Floyd Landis’ claims against Lance Armstrong and others is unknown. But a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in bringing fraud suits against government contractors says Landis could be acting as a whistleblower for a False Claims Act suit.

If that’s the case, Landis could be protected from some prosecution and could receive up to 30 percent of any judgment from a successful claim based on his information. And the judgment could be huge: a person found to have broken the False Claims Act is liable for a fine of between $5,000 and $10,000 and three times the actual damages.
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http://velonews.competitor.com/2010...741?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
 
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/has-the-uci-woken-up-and-smelt-the-coffee

"Presumably in the interests of open-ness the UCI will reveal the exact date in 2005 when they asked Armstrong for the money and when the cheque was paid. Let's hope both were before August 23, 2005, when l'Equipe ran its story. If it was between that date and October 5, when Emile Vrijman was appointed to head the inquiry, that would imply the UCI was simultaneously figuring out what to do with the l'Equipe allegations while squeezing cash out of the person at the heart of them. You know how it is, left-hand, right-hand, they don't always know what the other is doing.:

Thank you cyclingnews, thank you!
 
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Dave Millar et al.. via bianchigirl
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_15175682

"That's the problem," Millar said. "Now he's lost the ability to tell the truth whether it is or not. That's what's despicable about it — and sad. Because I'm sure there's truth in some of it. But it doesn't mean anything anymore. And he's hurting innocent people."

interesting comment in there from mcquad..

Added McQuaid: "It's possible there's certain elements of truth but it's possible there are certain elements of lies. Therefore, that discredits everything he said."

a few days ago it was ALL lies.. now theres an element of truth
 
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theswordsman said:
Statement to VeloNews
"Garmin team’s management says its riders are free to cooperate with Landis investigation"

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010...to-cooperate-with-landis-investigation_118885
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"We expect anyone in our organization who is contacted by any cycling, anti-doping, or government authority will be open and honest with that authority. In that context, we expect nothing short of 100% truthfulness – whatever that truth is – to the questions they are asked. As long as they express the truth about the past to the appropriate parties, they will continue to have a place in our organization and we will support them for living up to the promise we gave the world when we founded Slipstream Sports."

:eek: I hope this has merit
 
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Just to throw more coal into the fire, plus I haven't read this anywhere, I recall Cheryl on Larry King after Lance and Cheryl's breakup. Larry asked Cheryl is Lance doped. Cheryl replied that she's not in that world anymore. Larry asked again, Cheryl gave the same answer.

Take it for what you will, but I found it quite the curious answer....
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Only links. Here is the transcript:

KING: That's where we meet, at the Daily Grill. One other thing on Lance and I won't bug you again. How did you react to the doping allegation?

CROW: Oh, you know, I can't even step back in time and talk about all that stuff.

KING: Did it shock you that it's even alleged?

CROW: I have to tell you, I have not had my nose in that world in a long, long time. I haven't. I haven't been reading tabloid magazines.

I don't know what's going on besides us being in a war and watching CNN constantly but all that stuff I don't even have an opinion about it.

Don't know anything about it. KING: Is it hard to date again?
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Transcript Interview with Sheryl Crow Aired August 23, 2006 - 20:00 ET
 
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