Post Office Announces Plan to Launch Clothing Line as Department of Justice Sues Lance Armstrong for Allegedly Financing Doping with Post Office Money
cindy47452/Foter.com/CC BY-NC-SAEarlier this month, the post
office announced it was
cutting Saturday service as part of an effort to save money.
That didn’t stop the U.S. Postal Service from announcing its
intention to
launch a clothing line next year, though. It’s not the first
time the post office has made a WTF-worthy decision. The Postal
Service loses money regularly printing
too many special edition stamps. The post office’s most
infamous decision might’ve been to sponsor a cycling team. While
Lance Armstrong was a media darling when the post office signed up
to sponsor his team in 1998, things have changed since Armstrong
was accused
of, and then admitted to, doping. The post office ended its
relationship with Armstrong in 2004, and earlier this year it was
reported he might
return some money to the Postal Service. Now the Department of
Justice is
involved. Via
the New York Times:
The Department of Justice has decided to join a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong and several associates that accuses them of using taxpayer money to finance doping on the United States Postal Service cycling team, according to a lawyer for Armstrong.
Armstrong is named as a defendant in a federal whistle-blower case filed in 2010 by Floyd Landis, one of Armstrong’s former teammates. The suit claims that Armstrong and his associates defrauded the government by allowing doping on the United States Postal Service team when doping was explicitly forbidden in the sponsorship contract.
According to the Times, Lance Armstrong’s lawyers offered to settle with the government for $5 million but the government is seeking “much more.” The post office lost nearly $16 billion in the last fiscal year alone.
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Was there a no dope string attached to their endorsement?
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Someone didn't RTFA.
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Whatever.
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Which Armstrong's mailbox is that?
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IIRC, Neil's was black. And I know there was no guardrail in front of it.
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Lance Armstrong vs the DoJ.
Can I just hate them both?
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I'd give my left nut for that endorsement.
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Can't Lance just ask "What difference does it make now?"
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That jsut makes a ll kinds of crazy sense dude.
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I'd say the post office got more than their money's worth. The USPO team won back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to.... well, you get the point. They wanted their logo seen on a winner and they got it. Years later the leader's image is tarnished... and that affects the publicity that they got a decade ago exactly how? Via some sort of wormhole time-dilation effect? And adding in the justice department.... those guys really are a bunch of publicity whores, huh? Never mind that they are screwing with someone's life, there are careers to be made!