Lance Armstrong settles $100 million U.S. Postal Service cycling fraud case for $5 million

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Spencer S. Hsu April 19 at 4:31 PM

Lance Armstrong will pay $5 million to the federal government to settle a fraud lawsuit that contended he owed $100 million to taxpayers for doping while competing for a cycling team sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service.

The settlement was reached in an agreement announced Thursday with the U.S. Justice Department.

In addition to the $5 million to be returned to the government, Armstrong also agreed to pay $1.65 million to cover legal costs of Floyd Landis, a former Armstrong teammate and the whistleblower in the case, according to lawyers in the case.

The agreement was struck before the scheduled May 7 start of a trial over the civil case and ends the last legal action against Armstrong, a cancer survivor and cycling champion who in 2012 was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and barred for life from Olympic sports.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/lance-armstrong-settles-100-million-us-government-doping-fraud-case-for-5-million/2018/04/19/effa18fe-4263-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html

[Aristus]

1. Armstrong used the same excuse they all do.

"If I don't juice, I can't compete!"

Leaving aside the fact that if none of them juiced, it would be a level playing field. Which is what it's supposed to be.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. He should be paying $5M fine just for being such a total fucking jackoff fuckstain of a human.

And then pay whatever fine he deserves for fraud above that.