benzwire said:NYVelocity pointed out this post from Juan Pelota's twitter (from February):
"Adios Selena"?? Is Lance going somewhere? Oh yes....
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benzwire said:NYVelocity pointed out this post from Juan Pelota's twitter (from February):
benzwire said:NYVelocity pointed out this post from Juan Pelota's twitter (from February):
It's amazing to go back through some of his postings to see his arrogance and attitude. Remember when he was taunting Novitzky?(http://www.twitter.com/juanpelota)
Microchip said:He knew when Levi testified; he knew that Frankie was in the car with Kerry. Doesn't he have a life??! Seems like all he does is follow people around.
Jeremiah said:He's a sociopath. That's what these people do. Stalking is in the "profile."
Race Radio said:
Oldman said:Do you suppose this will hurt Lance's popularity with his French fan base?
Mr. Birotte told them he was shutting down the investigation, that it was his decision and there would be “no discussion about it.” He did not give any reasons for his decision,
The United States Attorneys’ Manual, issued by the Department of Justice, says U.S. Attorneys should make sure the reasons for dropping any investigation are “communicated to the investigating agency involved and to any other interested agency, and are reflected in the office files.”
it would be unusual not to communicate those reasons to the agencies investigating the case,”
“This is still an ongoing matter for the FDA,”
Race Radio said:
Microchip said:At some point in time, Birotte needs to explain this publicly.
delleErbe said:Would be interesting to hear what powerful figure - most likely a high-ranking government official - told him to kill the investigation.
Race Radio said:Bill Clinton was one of many
the effort shows how far the disgraced former cyclist and his advisers went to try to frustrate efforts to probe Mr. Armstrong's past.
A lawyer for Lance Armstrong hired a lobbying firm in 2010 in an attempt to influence a federal criminal probe
'his firm was hired in July 2010 on Mr. Armstrong's behalf for a lobbying effort aimed, in part, at raising concerns about Jeff Novitzky, a Food and Drug Administration special agent who was leading the investigation into Mr. Armstrong
Mr. Caperton said the firm worked for Mr. Armstrong for about three months, but, after arranging meetings on Capitol Hill, decided a full-scale lobbying effort wouldn't have worked. "There was no congressional path forward,"
"No congressman in his or her right mind would try to interfere with a criminal investigation."
Documents filed by the Barnes Group under lobbying-disclosure laws show that the firm was hired to "monitor and liase [sic] with regard to the Federal Government's involvment [sic] into allegations of improper use of steroids and other substances by professional athletes."
Tim Herman, Mr. Armstrong's longtime counsel, made two payments in 2010 of $25,000 each through his Texas law firm to Barnes,
The Barnes effort began about three months after Mr. Novitzky and prosecutors in the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office began looking into whether Mr. Armstrong's team engaged in systematic doping
in 2012, as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency investigated Mr. Armstrong, a lobbyist hired by his cancer charity visited Rep. Jose Serrano (D., N.Y.), according to the congressman, who said through a spokesman the lobbyist criticized USADA and questioned the fairness of its process.