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U.S. Swimmer Jimmy Feigan Implies Brazil Extorted Him ... For King's Ransom

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[size=+2]U.S. SWIMMER JIMMY FEIGEN BRAZIL EXTORTED ME... For King's Ransom[/size]

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http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/24/u-s-swimmer-jimmy-feigen-brazil-extorted-me-for-kings-ransom/

Team USA swimmer Jimmy Feigen says Brazilian officials tried to shake him down following the gas station incident in Rio ... demanding more than $46,000 to let him leave the country.

Feigen just spelled out the situation in a statement through his lawyer -- saying on the day he was scheduled to leave Rio -- hell broke loose at a Brazilian courthouse.

Feigen says he was given two options:

Option 1 -- Remain in Brazil while the police continued the investigation. "This process was estimated to take at least a month and I would be required to remain in Brazil."

Option 2 -- Pay a fine of $31,250 for the return of his passport and perform 15 days of community service.
Feigen says he decided both options were unreasonable and shot down both deals -- the prosecutor responded by raising the fine to $46,875!

Finally, Feigen says all parties agreed to a $10,800 fine which would be paid in 3 days. If not, the fine would be raised to $46k.

Feigen paid the next day and got the hell out of Dodge.

By the way, Feigen also says his group did NOT ever break into the gas station bathroom that night -- but they did "make the regrettable decision to urinate in the grass behind the building" because the bathroom was locked.
 

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I believe him, as the surveillance video did not show them being aggressive or the door being kicked in as the Brazilian authorities had initially stated. This would have stayed under wraps had Lochte not told his attention hoe mother/had she kept her attention hoe mouth shut.
 

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I knew they will change their story when back in the US. I found it suspicious when they all said it was Lochte's plan and they all followed it... :disdain:
Ryan made a bigger mistake when he decided to leave the country without his teammates!
I won't be surprised if they said what they said just to get out of Brazil.
Anyway, time will tell...
 

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I said the whole thing was a shakedown. I bet half that fine went toward a new car for the judge or prosecutor.
 

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If you can's stand the heat,stay out of the kitchen. They forgot they were in Rio De Janeiro which is not a suburb in Texas.
 

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Damn, so they were robbed and extorted after all. SMH.

Wonder what ESPN and other networks including social media have to say now?
 

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the surveillance camera does show someone, i assume Ryan, breaking down the door. i did see a door collapse...
 

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I knew they will change their story when back in the US. I found it suspicious when they all said it was Lochte's plan and they all followed it... :disdain:
Ryan made a bigger mistake when he decided to leave the country without his teammates!
I won't be surprised if they said what they said just to get out of Brazil.
Anyway, time will tell...


sh!t i would say whatever i needed to say to get the hell out of there too. I'd be like "yep that dude aint sh!t, Deport em back...but i gotsa GO"
 

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I feel like these swimmers are playing on the way people from the states view Latin American countries as extremely corrupt compared to North American and Western European countries. If there was really some extortion attempt I hope the FBI comes out and says so, if not, then I don't have any reason to believe these dudes.
 

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Brazil is on the metric system, I do believe.

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or, the police could of scoped out his background and saw he had a little bit of money in the bank and said, "Well let us try to get some dollars" and went about it by making up random numbers
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Oh please your ass needs to extorted, you made dumb ass Ryan Lochte your leader.
They better not ever step in Rio or in general Brazil again because they run deep down there.
 

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I said the whole thing was a shakedown. I bet half that fine went toward a new car for the judge or prosecutor.

Damn, so they were robbed and extorted after all. SMH.

Wonder what ESPN and other networks including social media have to say now?

A shakedown and robbery. I found it sad how Americans were so quick to turn on them. My point from day one was while Ryan exaggerated the story, the facts remain they had a gun pointed at them with money demanded. Plus Brazil had a lot to gain by lying about what happened.
 

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Plus Brazil had a lot to gain by lying about what happened.

You mean, Rio would have had a lot to gain. I'm pretty sure the other states in Brazil (which is a country) don't give a damn about any of this.

Side note: If the swimmers would have kept their behinds within the confines of Olympic village where they were secure, none of this would have happened.
 

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