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In the lawsuit Armstrong says the USADA has been working with Food and Drug Administration agent, Jeff Novitzky, who is famous for his work on BALCO, Marion Jones and, more recently, on Armstrong himself.
FORBES: It's Time To Bring The Lance Armstrong Case To A Close
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The hormone was prepared from human pituitary glands recovered from cadavers, and the absence of rigorous collection guidelines and purification procedures permitted contamination of the formulated drug with the agent that causes Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the human equivalent of "mad-cow disease, " or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Kent Caperton, principal of the Ben Barnes Group, said in an interview that his firm was hired in July 2010 on Mr. Armstrong's behalf for a lobbying effort aimed, in part, at raising concerns about Jeff Novitzky, a Food and Drug Administration special agent who was leading the investigation into Mr. Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service cycling team.
WSJ: Armstrong Hired Lobbyist to Raise Concerns About Investigator