eric aldinger
USADA will continue their investigation, but, as the NY Times points out,
this would be a symbolic prosecution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/sports/cycling/federal-prosecutors-drop-lance-armstrong-investigation.html
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Eric wrote:
> I spent a career with Internal Revenue Service, and had occasional contact
> with criminal investigators. The standards they had to achieve were very
> high, since Department of Justice would not prosecute unless they were 100%
> convinced that they could get a conviction. The result is that the Feds
> have a very high conviction rate -- and internally there are problems for
> prosecuting attorneys who did not get convictions. There was absolutely no
> interest in a situation where there was any doubt whatsoever.
>
> == Eric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of schmidt
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 8:00 PM
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] no crime here... Lance...
>
> All this means is that the Feds decided they could not spend any more cash
> to pursue this overseas, and that they could not prove that USPS team
> members defrauded the Postal Service knowingly. It certainly does not let
> L.A off the hook IMO, nor vindicate him at all.
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