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To: Ready4Freddy
"Prosecutors "aren't going to charge somebody with doping," said Mike Straubel, an attorney at the Valparaiso University Sports Law Clinic in Indiana, who represents athletes. "They are going to charge somebody with a secondary offense of fraud in some fashion—perjury or lying to a federal investigator."

TRANSLATION: An ambitious prosecutor wishing to garner publicity for himself by going after celebrities can still get his name in the papers & burnish his CV even if in the end he only wins the mickey mouse tacked-on charges.

If you initiate an investigation not to seek justice for a crime committed, but to to trap somebody for lying to authorities during the investigation itself, you still get just as rich & famous as the attorneys who pursue suspects with the intent of actually proving that the very alleged crimes which precipitated the investigation did indeed occur.

Kinda makes ya feel all warm & fuzzy inside about our federal justice system, doesn't it?

Gee, it's just too darn bad Ironman doesn't have a fishing expedition component in its competition. Looks like Lance will be getting a lot of practice for that in before Hawaii if he does indeed decide to enter.

230 posted on 07/27/2010 4:09:00 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani; Baynative; Mr. Blonde; commish; Mom MD
Armstrong lawyers say USADA offering riders deals [to testify against Lance]
231 posted on 08/03/2010 7:02:04 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sure I've heard of grits. I just never actually *seen* a grit before.)
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