Benotti69 said:
Qui Tam will make Landis richer than Wonderboy when this is all over.
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You are viewing it through rose tinted / lance hatred glasses.
That out come assumes that the case happens, and that he wins, and that he wins the appeal. None of which are certain, not least because there was no loss without which it is hard to prove fraud.: USPS bought promotion and got it in spades. If the case was a slamdunk, I think the US justice department would have dunked it by now, and no way could Landis afford to fight the case on his own.
Also - If it goes ahead I am guessing Weisel has as much if not more to fear than Armstrong. Scott Mercier for example can testify that the USPS systematic doping was enforced team policy before Armstrong even joined the team, so it was not "Armstrong who started it" and there are many others part of the same conspiracy: Landis him self a conspirator during the fact. He did not walk away because of the doping but carried on regardless. I do not know how Qui Tam suits calculate damages, other than the "headline percentage" but I suspect the fact that Landis happily carried on doing it both at USPS and then elsewhere (by the same token defrauding other sponsors) would weigh against him
True whistleblowers (like for example the UK born head of Japanese Olympus - walk away to avoid being part of the conspiracy)
Faced with jail time and a ticking clock, I think Landis will settle for certainly rather than winning such a high stakes lottery - which is unlikely to give him money on time even if he wins. It is a case that could drag on for years, even if started today. So if lance offers him the cost of an exit and a few dollars to get going again, I think he will take it. Of course paying a witness to avoid testifying in a case against them has a kind of whiff of bribery and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice about it! All no doubt legally muddy water so the documents would need careful drafting!
I think Lance might just use that "qui tam" suit in the Oprah interview as a way to dodge questions he does not want to answer.