Justice Department Admits Reflecting Pool Damage Not Caused by Vandals as It Moves to Drop Charges Against Olympian – As It Happened The US attorney in Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, has filed documents revealing that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was not caused by vandals.
The charges against David Hearn, a former Olympian accused of vandalism, are being dropped due to "botched" renovation work by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings.
The case highlights the consequences of bureaucratic ineptness and overzealous prosecution.