The speculative side questions you raise in #96 convince me of only one thing, we will continue go nowhere in the absence of credible or conceded facts. (If you have a factual summary of the court proceedings in this instance, it would be interesting reading.)
As I and others have argued upthread, Lochte’s greatest and perhaps only offense may be that he, for his personal benefit, allowed a lie to his mother (?) to be spotlighted at the international level to the great embarrassment of the host country.
As an aside, current or future sponsors may well wonder if he would cause them to suffer similar embarrassment. (For example, see Colin K. and the 49’ers.)
We have a credible fact in that the Rio Police Department accused Lochte of breaking a soap dish. The two reporters from USA Today have confirmed this did not happen. Same thing with the mirror that the Rio police claim was broken. The mirror was found to be unbroken.
We have a fact that the Rio police did not submit a video of Lochte (or any other American) entering the bathroom they claim was vandalized. They have video for the entrance of the Bathroom because they showed us that they had video for the entrance of the bathroom.
We have a credible fact in two different Brazilian witnesses claim that the four Off Duty Rio Police officers who for some reason decided to be guarding a gas station in the middle of the night, did indeed point a gun at the Americans and demand money.
We have lots of credible facts, and they demonstrate to any reasonable man that the Rio police department lied about what happened.
As I and others have argued upthread, Lochte’s greatest and perhaps only offense may be that he, for his personal benefit, allowed a lie to his mother (?) to be spotlighted at the international level to the great embarrassment of the host country.
What lie did he tell his mother? I keep hearing that Lochte lied about something, but nobody seems willing to inform me regarding a significant lie that he told.