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Prosecutors close Lance Armstrong investigation. Liberals rendhair, gnash teeth and beat their children.
On 06/02/2012 13:46, NoDannyNo wrote:
On Feb 4, 4:17 am, "Don't Mess With Texas"up-yo...@liberal-cock- suckers.com wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/04/SPGA1N303S.DTL Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort to determine whether the seven-time Tour de France winner and his teammates participated in a doping program. Armstrong has steadfastly denied he doped during his unparalleled career, but the possibility of criminal charges threatened to stain his legacy as the world's greatest cyclist and could have cast a shadow over his cancer charity work. "I am gratified to learn that the U.S. Attorney's Office is closing its investigation," Armstrong said in a statement. "It is the right decision and I commend them for reaching it. I look forward to continuing my life as a father, a competitor, and an advocate in the fight against cancer without this distraction." The probe, anchored in Los Angeles, where a grand jury was presented evidence by federal prosecutors and heard testimony from Armstrong's former teammates and associates, began with a separate investigation of Rock Racing, a cycling team owned by fashion entrepreneur Michael Ball. U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. announced in a news release that his office "is closing an investigation into allegations of federal criminal conduct by members and associates of a professional bicycle racing team owned in part by Lance Armstrong." He didn't disclose the reason for the decision, though Birotte has used discretion in pursing high-profile criminal cases before. Last February, his office closed an investigation of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corp. The pronouncement comes after two less-than-successful cases against top athletes accused of doping. Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice and sentenced in December to 30 days' home detention - a conviction he's appealing - but prosecutors were unable to convince a jury that he lied about using steroids. Roger Clemens' steroids trial is slated for April 17 after a judge declared a mistrial last summer, ruling that prosecutors showed jurors inadmissible evidence. Investigators looked at whether a doping program was established for Armstrong's team while, at least part of the time, it received government sponsorship from the U.S. Postal Service. Authorities also examined whether Armstrong encouraged or facilitated doping on the team. The hurdle for prosecutors wasn't so much to prove whether any particular cyclist used drugs, but to determine if Armstrong and other team members violated federal conspiracy, fraud or racketeering laws. Unlike Bonds and Clemens, who testified before a federal grand jury and Congress, respectively, and were accused of lying under oath, Armstrong was not questioned in front of the grand jury. Armstrong won the Tour de France every year from 1999-2005. Betsy Andreu, who with her husband and former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu accused the cycling champion of doping, said she was shocked by Birotte's decision. "Our legal system failed us," she said. "This is what happens when you have a lot of money and you can buy attorneys who have people in high places in the Department of Justice." Led by federal agent Jeff Novitzky, who also investigated Bonds and Clemens, U.S. authorities sought assistance overseas, requesting urine samples of U.S. Postal riders from France's antidoping agency and also meeting with officials from Belgium, Spain and Italy. The investigation began after Novitzky was told about a cache of PEDs found by a landlord in the vacated apartment of Kyle Leogrande, a cyclist who rode for Rock Racing and had a doping ban, according to several people familiar with the case. THE LANCE is superhuman. He destroyed an entire army of doped-up cocksuckers in the TdF for 7 years on nothing but mineral water, croissants, and Peet's coffee. It took a cheating, dope-steak eating mother****er to finally take him down when he was nearly 40 years old. Shirly he ate some Petits Pains au Chocolat too? -- |
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