DOJ drops criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved Friday to disregard a transgression lawsuit charging a erstwhile Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Government lawyers said successful a 20-page tribunal filing that accusation provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the harm was the effect of a “flawed installation by the contractor” arsenic good arsenic “the unreserved to implicit the task anterior to events associated with the America 250 solemnisation successful the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”