On May 18, 6:14 am,
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> Will, Will, Will.........
"He said 'Hi Greg, this is your uncle. This is your uncle Ron and I'm
going to be there tomorrow,'" LeMond recalled. "I said, 'Who is this?'
He said, 'I'm going to be there and we can talk about how we used to
hide your weenie.' I got the picture right away that there are very
few people who know about that. I figured this was intimidation."
The three-time Tour champ said the caller then hung up, and when
LeMond redialed he got a voicemail message identifying the call
recipient as "Will."
LeMond said he tried calling back three more times, finally getting an
answer from someone who identified himself only as "Bill." The
conversation was inconclusive, so LeMond hung up and then called the
police. A subsequent check of the number saved on LeMond's mobile
phone showed that it belonged to Landis's business manager Will
Geoghegan.
LeMond said he was surprised when Landis called him last August.
photo: Agence France Presse - 2007
USADA counsel Barnett then pointed out Geoghegan who was present in
the courtroom, seated directly behind the Landis legal team. Geoghegan
is a long-time friend of Landis, and the two were once mountain-bike
teammates before Landis made the switch to road racing.
Barnett proceeded to place a Witness Tampering report against
Geoghegan on the courtroom's overhead projector. As in most states,
witness tampering is a felony in California. Meanwhile, Landis defense
team lead attorney Maurice Suh spent several minutes conferring with
Geoghegan, whose face and neck were noticeably red.