Lance Armstrong says he and his attorneys have built strong case in their on-going legal battle with the US federal government. Armstrong discussed the whistleblower lawsuit Tuesday in an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience show saying, “We think that — we're confident in the case... settlement's not an option.”
The United States Anti-Doping Agency stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour titles in 2012, following their investigation into his former team [which was sponsored by the US Postal Service] and their organized doping scheme, said to have been led by Armstrong.
The whistleblower lawsuit, which accuses Armstrong and former colleagues of defrauding the government, was originally filed by Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis under the Federal False Claims Act.
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The US Justice Department joined the case in 2013 in an effort to recover sponsorship funding paid by the US Postal Service to the team between 1996 and 2004.
The case could see Armstrong lose US$100 million, and a third of those damages could go the whistleblower, Landis. Armstrong has said he fears financial ruin because of this lawsuit. However, in the two-hour discussion with Rogan, Armstrong stated that the lawsuit was hard to talk about because it is still active but that, “we like our case.”
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