Originally Posted by
patentcad
Taking PEDs isn't a criminal offense. Defrauding a government agency (the Postal Service) out of millions of dollars in sponsorship dough with race results helped by fraudulent means becomes racketeering. Using team sponsor money to buy PED's by putting it through secret bank accounts becomes another felony (money laundering). It's not the PEDs they're getting him on, it's the criminal fraud aspect. Again, had this suspected offense been perpetrated on a private corporation nobody would be investigating anything.
My understanding is that the opposite is actually true. That it will be the PEDs that form a cornerstone of the case. Namely PEDs from drug trials that he was able to buy up or obtain somehow. It also shoots the level playing field argument in the butt, as they're drugs no one had and that they weren't testing for.