roadhouse said:Us Team Postal was funded via The United Statesof America's money, if any of the funded monies used were involved in any illegal proceedings aka doping, then it is a federal case and has supreme jurisdiction hence the federal prosecutor assigned to the case and it is not so much about the doping and whether or not Lance did but what happened to the US money which should lead to a few more open doors if that is the case.
remember that movie Alcatraz, where Kevin Bacon at the age of 13 stole food from a store that sold US stamps and served as a post office so it was a federal crime? that kind of thing.
There is more than just that. FLandis has said that when he joined Phonak, Ochowicz arranged to have him set up a Swiss bank account with UBS so that he could evade U.S. taxes. Ochowicz has a long relationship with Armstrong and U.S. cycling. He has worked for Armstrong's patron, Tom Wiesel, managing the money of high worth individuals. It is reasonable to assume that Landis was not the first cyclist he advised to setup foreign bank accounts. There could be a huge can of worms there.
Now to make things more interesting, Armstrong today denied that he was ever an owner of Tailwind Sports, a for profit company that managed the Postal and Disco teams. He claims that the contracts will bear this out. But Armstrong himself said in a deposition that he owned part of Tailwind. There are also numerous other instances of Armstrong and people around him claiming that he is a part owner. It looks like there was an off the books agreement between Armstrong and Tailwins, and it is likely that this agreement resulted in profits being paid to Armstrong, perhaps through the same types of bank accounts that his good buddy Oshowicz like to setup for cyclists.
The chief investigator, Novitsky, was formerly an investigator for the IRS. He should be an expert at these sorts of issues.
