Performance. That charge brought strong denials from armstrong at the time. Hes got no proof. Its his word versus ours. Reporter but in 2011, another teammate, tyler hamilon, told 60 minutes armstrong did used banned substances, including the blood doping agent e. P. O. He took what we call all took. Really no difference between Lance Armstrong and, say the majority of the team. There was e. P. O. , there was testosterone. And i did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion. Reporter last month armstrong admitted the doping in an interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimillion Dollar Settlement but the Justice Department turned down that d
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An interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimilliondollar settlement but the Justice Department turned down that deal, demanding the disgraced cyclist pay a higher price. If the government wins, scott, floyd landis could get to a fourth of the total damages. Pelley almost 25 million. Bob, thank you very much. This is a big turnabout for the government. It was a year ago the Justice Department dropped a criminal investigation of armstrong. The evidence against him now first came out in secret testimony in that criminal case. But the department of justice dropped the case without explanation before a grand jury even had a chance to vote on
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Many of Lance Armstrongs victories were painted red, white, and blue. His team sponsor was the u. S. Postal service and, in the late 1990s, the agency could hardly believe its luck, that it had put its money on a man who became arguably the greatest endurance athlete of all time. Well, today color the pofl service embarrassed. The u. S. Justice department announced this afternoon that it will join a civil lawsuit that claims armstrong defrauded the federal government. Heres bob orr. Reporter the lawsuit as Lance Armstrong broke his sponsorship contract with the u. S. Postal service by using performanceenhancing drugs while winning multiple Tour De France titles. The Postal Service paid at least 31 million to sponsor armstrongs cycling team and now the Justice Department wants that money back and could seek total damages approaching 100 million. The lawsuit, first filed by armstrongs former teammate floyd landis in 2010, claims the team knowingly caused the United States Postal Service