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Prosecutors close Lance Armstrong inquiry with no charges



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#1 fandacious

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:36

http://espn.go.com/o...e-press-charges

So he must be innocent
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:37

http://www.usatoday....osed/52951474/1

Let the games begin!

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:38

You beat me to it.

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:41

Not the end of the headaches for him:
The case may not be concluded for Armstrong, however, as the US Anti-doping Agency (USADA) has announced that it is "looking forward to obtaining the information" which was gathered through the grand jury investigation.
from CyclingNews

Edited by HEman, 04 February 2012 - 06:41 .


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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:51

Unreal................
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:02

The cat with 9 lives.......how many more left?

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:55

Congrats Lance,you had very good Doctors and friends in high places,and so you got away with it :clap: ;)
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:59

Now Fat Pat and Verbruggen's civil case makes a bit more sense. They knew this was coming and are planning to ride the yay-Lance wave.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 08:47

View PostDJR, on 04 February 2012 - 07:02 , said:

The cat with 9 lives.......how many more left?
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 08:54

Good article on ESPN
http://espn.go.com/o...s?eleven=twelve

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 09:24

View Postfandacious, on 04 February 2012 - 06:36 , said:


I hope the Yanks now take the Federal investigators to task for wasting tax payers munny

Edited by eccentric1, 04 February 2012 - 09:27 .

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:27

View Postfandacious, on 04 February 2012 - 06:36 , said:


Well done FanD for being the first to post the good news

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But of course....trolls of the world will still cry foul no matter how many replays they watch.

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Edited by SwissVan, 04 February 2012 - 10:28 .

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:47

some people are rather conspicuous by their absences from this post :P I think they most probably busy selling the rope they were storing for the lynching

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:13

At the pleasure of repeating myself, i would have accepted guilty verdict, how many critics would accept an otherwise outcome. What did the Feds find out to dismiss all the "evidence" put before them. Critics were claiming that his Livetsrong bracelet was a dead cert to be replaced by a metal one and he would be frog marched to the nearest jailhouse to serve his time.

Its not over yet though, conspiracy theories such as Feds were paid off, hell i'm even waiting for alien angle to be expressed.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:21

View PostThaStig, on 04 February 2012 - 10:47 , said:

some people are rather conspicuous by their absences from this post :P I think they most probably busy selling the rope they were storing for the lynching

Meh. I was here long ago. Who do you think merged the freds?

So the feds dropped the charges, meaning they can't find enough proof that Lance used USPS (government) funds to pay for his doping program. It doesn't mean they found him "innocent" of doping.

Remember, this investigation wasn't about sporting fraud, it was about misappropriation of government funds.

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 12:11

View PostTNT1, on 04 February 2012 - 11:21 , said:

Meh. I was here long ago. Who do you think merged the freds?

So the feds dropped the charges, meaning they can't find enough proof that Lance used USPS (government) funds to pay for his doping program. It doesn't mean they found him "innocent" of doping.

Remember, this investigation wasn't about sporting fraud, it was about misappropriation of government funds.

As I said above I hope the feds will be taken to task now by the litigation mad Yanks for wasting taxpayers money.
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