Forget Oprah, We Had Lance Armstrong’s Number Years Ago!

January 19th, 2013. By AbiK

Gotta say…Lance, Lance, we knew you when, big guy…

When you still thought you had a prayer in you-know-what of beating this whole thing. But we knew you…didn’t.

See, our readers know that if you want to know if something, or someone, is a scam, you come here first.

Not that we take pleasure in having a few back slaps and high-fives by the water cooler at the expense of someone’s demise. Well, actually, in this case we do (though we don’t, actually, have a water cooler).

While many out there were still trying to cut Lance some slack, we knew his ride was pretty much over. And we knew he hadn’t been getting that ‘peak performance’ from a freakin’ bottle of FRS Energy Drink. C’mon Lance…could it have been the performance enhancing drugs? Oh right—Oprah already coaxed that one out of you.

As LawyersandSettlements.com’s senior legal correspondent Jane Mundy—who first reported on the FRS Energy Drink false advertising allegations in September 2010—said at the time:

“It’s hard to believe that Lance Armstrong, FRS poster boy, would be associated with any false advertising. Or is it?”

Uh, no Jane, apparently it’s not!

Jane went on to share with one of Lance’s hoodwinked supporters that not only was Lance lying through his teeth about any performance benefits coming from 19g of sugar, but he was also getting paid for it—hello disclosure—not only as an FRS spokesperson, but also as a member of the FRS board of directors! Make that check out to “Lance Armstrong” please…

Post-script, FRS dropped Lance. Regardless of whatever claims the makers of FRS may make, they’re no fools: bye-bye Lance.

Oh, and speaking of FRS, they’ve got another little post-script—an FRS false advertising class action lawsuit that’s recently been filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court (12/5/12). Only now, as Bevnet reports, it’s FRS Healthy Slim that’s in the cross-hairs. Guess someone wasn’t magically dropping those pounds.

Well, Lance may have been living strong and feeding us all some dope about his performance. But we never bought it.

Tags: Consumer Fraud, false advertising, FRS Energy Drink, Lance Armstrong

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