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Raskin launches probe into Trump administration’s attempted prosecution over Reflecting Pool damage
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The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe into the Trump administration over its now-dismissed prosecution of an Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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And Raskin said the Trump administration may have withheld information that was “exculpatory” for Hearn.
He noted that Interior officials wrote to the contractor who repainted the Reflecting Pool as early as June 11 — more than a week before Hearn’s arrest — complaining that the pool liner was already peeling.