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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do we know what false statements he made to police ? What was the statement that cost him 11k[/quote]

He didn't make any false statements to the police, because the police were never even called. The claim is that Lochte made a false claim [i]about [/i]the police.  He got back to the states and said that the police pulled them out of a taxi by the side of the road, pointed guns and demanded money.

Turns out that gas station attendants and/or security guards pulled them out of a taxi, pointed guns and demanded money, which they paid.  But saying that it was police who pulled the guns was the crime worth $12K.  Because making false claims against the police in Brazil is a [i]serious [/i]offense.  [/quote]

Did he even say they were the police? I thought he just said dressed like the police or in police uniforms (which honestly security might look like that to a foreigner...)[/quote]

I don't know what he said exactly because I wasn't paying attention to this story until several days after it broke.  But the complaint from Brazilian authorities is that he said the police held them up at gunpoint.  He was already back in the U.S. when the story went viral, so they went after the athletes still in the country, pulling them off the plane before they could return home.  None of the athletes filed a report with police.

My view is that they were completely drunk (their behavior in the video shows this), were shocked to have guns pulled on them, assumed the gun wielders were police (because no gas station attendees would even have guns to pull in the U.S.) and were too intoxicated to know what really happened the next day.  Lochte stupidly bragged about the incident and Feigen paid the cost.[/quote]

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