So about Lance Armstrong. . .

[Boges]

Should Lance Armstrong be forgiven?

He's got to do more than an interview with Oprah. He should give back every cent (plus lots of interest) that he won in court rulings.

WADA has said he can't compete in any international competition until he confesses under oath.

I suspect he'll find himself in court himself now that he's admitted he's a complete fraud.

[Shady]

He's got to do more than an interview with Oprah. He should give back every cent (plus lots of interest) that he won in court rulings.

WADA has said he can't compete in any international competition until he confesses under oath.

I suspect he'll find himself in court himself now that he's admitted he's a complete fraud.

How much money did he win in court?

[Boges]

How much money did he win in court?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/22/uk-libel-laws-sunday-times-lance-armstrong

He won 1 million pounds suing a newspaper. They'll want that back.

But it's not just monetary figures. It's reputations of the people he ruined who's only crime was speaking the truth.

[Boges]

According to this Washington Times Article he stands to lose up to $100 million now that he's come clean.

Mr. Armstrong faces a whistleblower lawsuit filed by former teammate Floyd Landis that asserts Mr. Armstrong defrauded the federal government by using performance-enhancing drugs and overseeing other riders doing the same, thereby violating the terms of a sponsorship contract with the United States Postal Service that paid Mr. Armstrong’s cycling team more than $30 million from 1998 to 2004.

From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France titles, all of which have since been voided.

According to the New York Daily News, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will decide by Thursday whether the Department of Justice will join Mr. Landis‘ lawsuit, filed under the False Claims Act, a law that allows individuals to file suit on behalf of the government as a way of recovering fraud against taxpayers.

If the government does join the lawsuit, it could seek triple damages of more than $90 million from Mr. Armstrong and his co-defendants, who reportedly include his longtime manager, corporate backers and a San Francisco investment banker who founded Tailwind Sports, the holding company for Mr. Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service teams.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/16/armstrongs-confession-to-doping-could-cost-million/#ixzz2IjCRCEPb

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[guyser]

How much money did he win in court?

Well there was the $5M he won in arbitration.

Pretty safe to say Lance will lose many many times that amount in the next few years.

[Shady]

I guess the moral of the story is that if you don't have proof somebody did something, don't allege that they did it publicly. That's what's known as libel and slander, and can get you in quite a bit of legal trouble.

[Boges]

I guess the moral of the story is that if you don't have proof somebody did something, don't allege that they did it publicly. That's what's known as libel and slander, and can get you in quite a bit of legal trouble.

Sure but the fact that these people were right all the long ads credence to the fact that he's a scumbag.

In theory OJ Simpson could sue anyone that says he murdered two people.

[Shady]

Sure but the fact that these people were right all the long ads credence to the fact that he's a scumbag.

In theory OJ Simpson could sue anyone that says he murdered two people.

You got to be smart about it.

[Guest Manny]

Pay it back? that would be interesting to see. Brian Mulroney didn't have to pay back the $ 2 million.

[GostHacked]

I guess the moral of the story is that if you don't have proof somebody did something, don't allege that they did it publicly. That's what's known as libel and slander, and can get you in quite a bit of legal trouble.

And this is why Lance is in the shitstorm he is in.

[Boges]

Pay it back? that would be interesting to see. Brian Mulroney didn't have to pay back the $ 2 million.

Nor is he coming clean to Oprah coming clean hoping to have a chance to run for office again.

[Shady]

And this is why Lance is in the shitstorm he is in.

Yep.

[GostHacked]

Yep.

So a couple pages of push back from you only to agree with the overall feel of the thread. Awesome.

[Shady]

So a couple pages of push back from you only to agree with the overall feel of the thread. Awesome.

Nope. Seemed a bit onesided to me.

[Wilber]

I guess the moral of the story is that if you don't have proof somebody did something, don't allege that they did it publicly. That's what's known as libel and slander, and can get you in quite a bit of legal trouble.

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More like, don't abuse the legal system by using unsubstantiated litigation against those who are telling the truth, particularly when there are so many people who do know the truth. He's in big legal trouble and I doubt the courts will be particularly sympathetic.