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Rio police charge Lochte with false report of robbery

Lochte initially said that he and fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi by men with a police badge as they returned to the Olympic Village from a party Aug. 15. Under Brazilian law, the penalty for falsely filing a crime report carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison. The United States and Brazil have an extradition treaty dating back to the 1960s, but Brazil has a long history of not extraditing its own citizens to other nations and U.S.

 

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