eleven said:
I agree with much of your post, but this claim is simply not true - for two reasons.
1. The USPS does not receive federal moneys. It is, at best, a GSE ala Freddie or Fannie before they were taken into receivership. Furthermore....
2. People riding for a team sponsored by a GSE are not federal employees. They are (were) employees of Capital Sports and Entertainment / Tailwind.
Defrauding the govt never goes so well.
There is a citation somewhere on the forum looking at the monies the USPS takes, and, yes, they do get Federal funding.
The employment issue could also lead to a Federal claim. An employer may not make breaking the law a condition of employment, ie, dope or you got no job.
US Federal employment law 101 right there, and I am not even a citizen of the US! (please, please, no applause necessary!)
These Feds will take their own, slow, methodical look into all the accounts, sub-accounts, etc to filter out the bad behavior. Think they won't find the bad stuff? Think again.
There are just so many charges that can come form this, such a cross-section of things to find, things to go wrong, things to backfire, it will all go down the drain.
Tax issues at Livestrong? just wait. Federal employment charges? seems likely. Mis-use of Fed Funds/Defrauding the govt? won't take much.
And all of it comes from Landis, and the leverage of the Feds on those who clearly can/will corroborate his claims. Leverage in the form of Obstruction/Lying to a Fed Agent/Contempt/Adverse Inference from invoking the 5th.
Lance and his final dance.