http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/us-government-joins-whistleblower-suit-against-armstrongOriginally Posted by jpwkeeper .
No surprise here:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/02/news/sources-feds-unlikely-to-join-landis-whistleblower-suit_275444
Tygart needs to leave this alone. He's won, his duty has been fulfilled, Lance is banned from everything but Strava (which I still find to be utterly poetic and appropriate). He needs to put Lance's file in a filing cabinet and let individual justice take place from those who were wronged. I guarantee there are few lawyers who wouldn't take those cases on commission with the odds of winning them nearly 100%.
While I don't argue that he was wrong for going after Lance, it's hard to not think he does have an axe to grind when he's writing letters to the DoJ like this. Especially when it would be a difficult case to win based on the evidence that Tygart himself compiled.
I think the DoJ has much worse things on their plate right now then suing Lance and company, and they have very limited resources. Resources that could be put towards that case could likely keep a good number of people in jobs in the DoD (or at least not losing 1 day per week for 22 weeks) and I don't see them making much of a profit on the case, even if they got a judgement for the full 90 million (which they'd likely never get since Lance won't have that much by that time and has essentially no income).
To top it off, there really isn't any need for them to lift a finger. The people Lance sued, including SCA, will take it from here and finish the job of laying him low financially.
So before anyone says I'm defending Lance, understand that I'm not. Lance will get his without the DoJ wasting a dime and, even more importantly, man hours that they really don't have to spare. So I'm not for Lance getting off, I'm for the DoJ spending their time better.
So, now how you are going to spin your prediction?