Lance Armstrong on legal: what the evidence says · JRE #737
SUBJECT: LEGAL
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
we've sort of finished that first phase of litigation and that it'll go to trial maybe a year from now in washington dc
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Armstrong predicted in December 2015 that the U.S. government's False Claims Act lawsuit over his USPS sponsorship doping would reach trial roughly a year later, in Washington D.C. The case, originally filed by whistleblower Floyd Landis in 2010 and joined by the Department of Justice in 2013, did not go to trial in 2016. Litigation continued for more than two years past Armstrong's estimate, and a trial was eventually scheduled for May 7, 2018 in Washington D.C. federal court. Armstrong settled with the government for 5 million dollars in April 2018, days before that trial date, avoiding trial entirely. As a prediction, Armstrong's one-year timeline was inaccurate: the case took roughly two and a half more years to resolve and never actually went to trial.