Moncoutié rode for Cofidis, Bassons for Festina. Pinotti gets more leeway than most because he has gone out of his way in respect of cleanliness and has not been anti-doping in a towing the company line type of way but more in the Björn Ferry way. For the same reason, Danny Pate has a very good reputation on that front which makes his presence on Team Sky a very interesting aside in the debate on Sky. Swift doesn't have anything in his history to hang him on other than these associations, which are not quite the smoking gun in temrs of Sky's hiring policy that, say, Mick Rogers going on a training camp with a banned doctor, Vino, Kash and Levi is, but then the Clinic is in the business of suspicion, and he doesn't have any history of being anti-omertà or outspoken unprovoked anti-doping, nor have people come out and talked about him the way riders talked about guys like Moncoutié or Fedrigo.
We just don't know enough.