The Rio Public Ministry believes that the $10,800 charitable donation made by American swimmer Jimmy Feigen to escape prosecution for allegedly falsifying a police report is insufficient “given the gravity and negative repercussion of the fact.”

According to the USA Today, the Public Ministry, which is a prosecutorial body, originally asked Feigen to pay 150,000 Brazilian Reais, which comes out to just under $46,80000 USD. A judge later set the amount at 35,000 Reais, or about $10,900 at current exchange rates, which allowed Feigen to leave the country.

The donation is earmarked for the Instituto Reação (Reaction Institute), which is a judo academy founded by former Olympic medalist Flavio Canton. Among previous voluntary benefactors to the academy is American mixed martial arts superstar Rhonda Rousey, who made a $30,000 donation to the organization.

Feigen’s attorneys said that the Public Ministry’s demand was “disproportional” compared to his financial status, but the Public Ministry has appealed the amount saying that it was agreed to without their approval.

Anonymous wrote:So all this over a metal frame? Or, over a broken door and soap dish. Which one? If they couldn't get into the bathroom to begin with then maybe it was just the frame.

Anonymous wrote:Even the swimmers involved don't seem to agree on what happened...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-rio-2016-two-u-s-swimmers-apologize-for-gas-1471701923-htmlstory.html

jsteele wrote:This thread has been de-Trumped and de-soiled. Your assistance in keeping it that way will be appreciated.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read anyone defending Lochte. Not one.

Haven't you heard? If you think shakedowns are not okay, you must love Lochte.

Once again, Lochte is an asshole who was in the wrong. Brazil ALSO handled it poorly. Rio is a crime ridden city where you are in danger on a regular basis.

Three different statements. One doesn't negate the others.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read anyone defending Lochte. Not one.

Anonymous wrote:My husband was in Dominican Republic for a bachelor weekend and they got stopped by police on the way to the airport and had to pay money to be allowed to keep going. Shakedowns happen in third world countries. If the athletes don't know this or won't conduct themselves appropriately the IOC should only have the games in developed nations.

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Anonymous wrote:Just because it's the way it happens in Rio, doesn't mean that it's right or ok.

Yes, other countries have different laws and different judicial systems but I think that most rational people can agree that two civiilian men pointing guns at you and demanding that you pay for something is extreme and outrageous.

I strongly disagree. I find it flat out appalling that those athletes at least one of whom is a very wealthy man(and at 32 a grown ass wealthy man, btw) would trash private property in another country when, one hopes, they wouldn't dream of doing it here. All this while "representing us" at the olympics." Eff that.

This. Olympic athletes should be role models, not assholes.