DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to drop the felony property destruction indictment against former US Olympic canoeist David Hearn, explicitly admitting that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by a rushed and botched installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings , rather than by vandalism. In a filing submitted by US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro , prosecutors conceded that newly discovered documents and visual inspections revealed widespread peeling of the liner in areas—such as the middle of the pool—where a vandal could not have been reached, directly contradicting earlier assertions by the Interior Department (DOI) and President Trump that the failure stemmed from activist sabotage.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-s-take--6662936/support.