Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's lawyer said Tuesday that he should be able to keep his record-breaking victory, he from the U.S. Postal Service sponsorship fee, although he admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs.
U.S. District Court in Washington, filings, Armstrong's lawyers said, to benefit from the sponsorship of the postal services and asked the judge to dismiss the federal government's fraud lawsuit demanding their money back.
"The government wants a winner, all of the publicity, exposure and praise followed by his sponsor, it got it in the end is what the bargain," lawyers wrote. Postal Service is the federal government's arm.
Dear athletes who are fighting, his reputation and his income is still hanging in his seven Tour de France champion, he was denied last year banned the life cycle.
February, a month later, Armstrong admitted to doping, the U.S. Justice Department said it was joining the fraud lawsuit, in 2010, Armstrong's former teammate Landis. Landis proceedings, according to the federal law that allows exchange for reward informants report fraud.
Postal Service spent $ 4 billion from 1998 to 2004, Armstrong and his teammates from the downwind sports wear its logo on a record-breaking victory. These cost at least $ 1.79 billion went to Armstrong, according to the government.
Sponsorship contract, a promise of obedience circulation rules. These rules were broken in the debate, the Government asked for their triple damages.
"Postal Service contracts and downwind asked the team to enter the bike race, wearing the postal service marks, and follow the rules prohibited performance-enhancing substances - rules, Lance Armstrong has now admitted that he violated," Stewart Delery, Acting Assistant Attorney General the Justice Department said in February.
Armstrong's lawyers wrote that although doping and French investigators intense international concern, the U.S. government has never suspended Cycling Team. Instead, the government reiterates its sponsors.
"Now it is too late for the government to re-examine its options, to benefit from sponsorship, rather than investigating allegations of doping," they wrote.
For the record that the anti-fraud impersonator six years statute of limitations "expires in 2010, nine days ago Landis filed his suit, unless the government claims.
Former teammates battle
Although the court documents that the lawsuit is too late, respectively, Armstrong's lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins, who supervised the case, dismissed his former teammate Landis complaints.
Landis won the 2006 Tour de France, but was stripped of the title tested positive for synthetic testosterone after a year later.
In fact, like Armstrong, Landis, the use of performance-enhancing drugs should prevent him from under the False Claims Act "to prosecute and get rewards, Armstrong's lawyers wrote.
"Landis cheat his fans and other donors in order to amass funds to pay for his tortured his false denial litigation legal costs," they wrote. "Now he wants to pay for the cast the first stone."
False Claims Act "and its history can be traced back to 1863, so that informants prosecute suspected fraud, involving the U.S. government's money, if successful, regardless of the percentage of the government to restore.
Landis's lawyer Paul Scott has said that Armstrong's "false victory" never harm postal services. He said on Tuesday that he was still reading through the new legal briefs, but Armstrong's lawyers concluded that he did not agree.
Armstrong doping scandal led to a cascade of cancer survivors difficulties, including the loss of sponsorship, private litigation and the end of his LIVESTRONG Foundation, the cancer charity he founded affiliation.
Justice Department officials say they have no plans to bring criminal prosecutions against Armstrong.
 



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