Lance Armstrong has long since settled the federal fraud case against him last year, but the U.S. government is still waiting for former manager Johan Bruyneel to pay a $1.2 million judgment against him.

In a federal fraud claims lawsuit filed by lawyers for former professional athlete Floyd Landis, Bruyneel alleged that the team owner's doping activities amounted to fraud against the US Postal Service, an independent federal agency that provided over $30 million in support during the team's sponsorship The team claimed that.

Armstrong settled for $5 million in April 2018, $1.65 million of which was paid to Landis, who used the funds to support Floyd's Pro Cycling Continental team. Landis is to receive 10% of the $1.2 million if it is ever paid by Bruyneel.

According to USA Today Sports (opens in new tab), the U.S. Department of Justice hired a Spanish lawyer to serve the documents at Bruyneel's home in Madrid, Spain, but when Bruyneel answered the door, he refused to accept the documents.

The government offered Bruyneel another chance to contest the sentence, and a federal judge granted a 60-day stay against the sentence.

"The United States would like to give Bruyneel a final opportunity to appear and, if appropriate, seek relief from the default judgment against him or respond to a motion for default judgment," the Justice Department told USA Today.

Bruyneel and Armstrong were both banned from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in a 2012 reasoned decision based on the testimony of numerous witnesses who testified that systematic doping took place within the team while Armstrong was running the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005. He was one of the athletes who received a lifetime ban from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency based on the testimony of numerous witnesses who testified that systematic doping took place within the team while he was on the Tour de France.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld this ban in October 2018, and Bruyneel responded in an open letter: "I would like to emphasize that I acknowledge and fully accept that I have made many mistakes in the past. There are many things I wish I had done differently and some actions I deeply regret now. As a cyclist and as a team director, the times I lived in were very different than they are now.

"Without going into detail in this letter, I would just like to observe that we were all children of that era and faced the pitfalls and temptations that were part of the culture of the time. We did not always make the best choices.