Hearn Seeks Inquiry Into 2 Agencies Over 10-Year Reflecting Pool Prosecution
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 6
Hearn Seeks Inquiry Into 2 Agencies Over 10-Year Reflecting Pool Prosecution
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 6
Summary
Tuesday’s letter asks the Justice and Interior Department inspectors general to investigate officials’ conduct after former Olympian David Hearn was cleared in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case.
Hearn’s lawyers say prosecutors indicted him despite already knowing the pool liner was failing because of a botched Trump-overseen renovation, and then gave the court false timing about when they learned that.
The letter says Hearn was wrongly deprived of liberty, publicly defamed and threatened with up to 10 years in prison; former DOJ inspector general Michael Bromwich joined the request.
Jeanine Pirro’s office and the inspectors general did not immediately comment, while Pirro has said her office pursued the case because Interior failed to provide key evidence in time.