Originally Posted by
telebianchi
If I understood things correctly, the DOJ was investigating whether Lance used United States govt money (through USPS sponsorship) to fund illegal activities (use of illegal PEDs) and that doing so violated the contract with USPS. So they could only directly investigate the time-frame where USPS was the sponsor. They had to show that it was USPS money and not money from some other source that was used for any illegal activity they may have found. So DOJ may have had (and likely did in my opinion) plenty of info showing that Lance doped but if they couldn't follow the money back to USPS sponsorship they would not have had much of a case.
According to what was published those investigating were told the case was being dropped. There wasn't given a choice. The implication was that it was politically influenced, and they felt they had a solid case. Velonews is trying to get the documentation on that released using the freedom of information act, but there are folks interested in who pulled the strings on getting it dropped suddenly.