On July 2, federal prosecutors charged David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympian, with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.
Hearn had made a “ a violent effort ” to damage the pool, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.
A month later, Pirro’s office told the court she wanted to drop the case.
It turns out, Pirro said in a court filing late Friday, that the pool’s well-documented problems probably weren’t a result of vandalism. Instead, they were likely because of “hasty and botched work” performed by a contractor.
A standard news management rule of thumb is that you put out embarrassing news right before the weekend…
