[bgill]

If that’s all it was then why has the investigation taken so many days? File a complaint with the OC and the OC can demand the coach pay $200 to install a new toilet. Making a federal case out of it will cost all sides a load more.

[CondorFlight]

If this is accepted by the Brazilian authorities as true, then jail time is a possibility.

And if jail time here is no picnic, in Brazil it’s much, much worse.

[Tenacious 1]

If that’s all it was then why has the investigation taken so many days? File a complaint with the OC and the OC can demand the coach pay $200 to install a new toilet. Making a federal case out of it will cost all sides a load more.

The swimmers never reported the "robbery". They only investigated after Lochte's mom went to the media. The media ate it up because it is dramatic and fits the meme of the mess that is Brazil. The police came asking questions of the swimmers.

[Timpanagos1]

“File a complaint with the OC and the OC can demand the coach pay $200 to install a new toilet.”

Maybe, for some reason the “OC” is not the judicial authority in Brazil.