Photos: "Liar, liar, pants on fire"
Lance Armstrong isn't the first man caught in a lie, nor is he likely to be the last. Schemes and lies have been news since the Greeks fooled the Trojans. Here are just a few of the more famous liars.
"Liar, liar, pants on fire"
Rob Pilatus, left, and Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli give the thumbs-up as they display their Grammys after being presented with the 1989 best new artist award in Los Angeles Feb. 21, 1990. They were later stripped of their award after being revealed as lip-synching poseurs. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, file)
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In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, file photo provided by Harpo Studios Inc., talk show host Oprah Winfrey, right, interviews Lance Armstrong during taping for the show "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive" in Austin, Texas. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France cycling during the interview that aired Thursday, Jan. 17, reversing more than a decade of denial. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Harpo Studios, Inc., George Burns, File)
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In this Jan. 5, 2007 file photo, Maria Shriver, wife of then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laughs during his second inauguration in Sacramento, Calif. In an interview with "60 minutes" that is scheduled to air Sunday, Schwarzenegger says the affair he had with longtime housekeeper Mildred Baena, that led to a son, was "the stupidest thing", he ever did to Shriver who filed for divorce last July.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
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Backed up by House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., right, President Clinton prepares to speak outside the Oval Office at the White House following the historic impeachment vote by the House of Representatives, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1998. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta stands at left. Clinton lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Susan Smith arrives at the Union County Courthouse in Union, S.C., on Wednesday, July 26, 1995. Smith has been convicted in the drowning deaths of her two sons Michael and Alex and a jury is hearing testimony in the sentencing portion of her trial. She originally claimed she was carjacked and the boys were kidnapped. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Richard Heene and his three sons Bradford, Ryo and Falcon leave a Halloween costume store in Fort Collins, Colo., Monday Oct. 26, 2009. Charges could be brought against Richard Heene for perpetrating the "balloon boy" hoax, in which he said his son was swept away in a hot air balloon. (AP Photo/ Barry Gutierrez)
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"Beware Greeks bearing gifts." During the Trojan War, the Greeks pretended they were surrendering and offered a gift of a horse. The gift was accepted and brought through the gates of Troy, but once the Trojans were asleep, the Greek warriors hidden inside the giant horse exited and slaughtered the citizens of Troy. This July 2011 file photo shows a replica of the legendary Trojan horse at the entrance of the archaeological site of Troy, Turkey along Turkey's Aegean coast. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
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Ever heard of a "Ponzi sceme"? In this Jan. 20, 1935, file photo, Charles Ponzi is shown in the garden of his home in Rome, Italy, after being deported from the United States. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who cheated investors in Boston out of about $10 million in 1919 and 1920 in a short-lived scheme involving the use of outdated exchange rates for European currency. Ponzi was convicted of mail fraud in 1920 and served time in prison before being deported to Italy in 1934. (AP Photo, File)
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Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 three months after he acknowledged an affair with a woman hired to produce videos of him in 2006. The former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee has largely stayed in exile since admitting the affair. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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In this Jan. 11, 2008 file photo, former Olympic champion Marion Jones leaves after being sentenced at the Westchester County Federal Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y. Jones has been released from federal prison after completing her sentence for lying about her steroid use. She was released from a halfway house in San Antonio on Friday morning Sept, 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick leaves the federal courthouse in Richmond, Va., following his arraignment on federal dogfighting charges in this July 26, 2007 file photo. Prosecutors have more leverage against Vick now that his remaining two co-defendants decided to plead guilty while he has maintained his innocence in a federal dogfighting conspiracy case. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool)
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during a town hall meeting at Admiral King High School in Lorain, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Clinton told a story during her campaign about being under fire on a trip to Bosnia in 1996. It wasn't true. (AP Photo/Jamie-Andrea Yanak)
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United States Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus pauses before speaking during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday Oct. 8, 2004. Petraeus resigned in 2012 and revealed he had an affair with his biographer. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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In this March 12, 2004 file photo, former New York Times reporter, Jayson Blair speaks to an audience in New York's Harlem neighborhood. After the plagiary scandal, Blair has been working as a life coach in northern Va. since 2007. The ex-New York Times reporter best known for fabricating and plagiarizing says his experience hitting the lows helps him relate to people, and the respected psychologist who hired him into his practice agrees: "Jayson is now using his talents for good." (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek, File)
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James Frey poses for a portrait outside a cafe in New York in this March 24, 2003 photo. Frey and Random House have agreed in principle to settle lawsuits filed by readers who said they were defrauded by fabrications in his best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces," according to the New York Times edition on Thursday, Sept.7, 2006. (AP Photo/Gino Domenico)
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Frank Abagnale, Jr. poses for a photo at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Dec. 16, 2002. Abagnale, portrayed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the film "Catch Me If You Can," is the real-life subject of the book he wrote about his time as a successful con artist. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson)
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This is an undated sketch portrait of Gen. Benedict Arnold by an unknown artist. The American soldier joined the colonial forces during the War of Independence, 1775-83, took part in the unsuccessful siege of Quebec, and ultimately fled to the British lines and lived in England until his death in 1801. His name is often synonymous with the word "traitor." (AP Photo/Library of Congress)
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Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames leaves federal court in Alexandria, Va., in this April 28, 1994. The CIA and FBI significantly delayed the detection of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames by failing for five years to mount a serious, joint investigation of their stunning loss of Russian agents in 1985-86, the Justice Department concluded Monday, April 21, 1997. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
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Former Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose answers questions during a news conference at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio on Aug. 24, 1989. Rose was given a lifetime suspension by baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti with the opportunity to be reinstated after one year. Rose eventually admitted that he bet on the Reds "every night" while he was manager of the team. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Janet Cooke, a reporter for The Washington Post, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize April 15, 1981, for feature writing with a story about an 8 year old heroin addict. The Washington Star reported Wednesday that The Washington Post was returning the Pulitzer because the subject of the article did not exist. (AP Photo)
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President Richard Nixon speaks near Orlando, Fla. to the Associated Press Managing Editors annual meeting, Nov. 17, 1973. Nixon told the APME "I am not a crook." (AP Photo)
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In this photo released by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, center, acknowledges applause during a luncheon with Cardinals, including Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, second from right, Giovanni Re, right, and Angelo Sodano, third from left, to mark the fifth anniversary of his election, in the Ducale Hall, at the Vatican, Monday, April 19, 2010. Monday's anniversary is clouded by a clerical sex abuse scandal that has been rocking the Catholic Church for months, causing it its gravest crisis of recent times. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **
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