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Former U.S. Olympian charged with vandalism of Reflecting Pool

The Justice Department now charging a former American Olympian for damaging the reflecting pool in Washington.

President Trump spent $16 million in taxpayer money to paint and renovate the pool.

He blamed vandals for the algae and peeling paint.

Now that former Olympian has been charged and tonight he says he did nothing wrong.

Here's Mary Bruce.

>> Tonight the Justice Department bringing felony charges against former American Olympian David Hearn, accusing him of damaging the reflecting pool two weeks after he was arrested [clears throat] on the National Mall.

President Trump spent $16 million in taxpayer money to refurbish the pool, but just one week later it turned green with algae.

Parts of its freshly painted bottom rising to the surface.

Trump blamed vandals, not his handpicked contractors.

>> They put a big gash 350 ft long, think of that. 350 ft gash.

>> Today US Attorney Jeanine Pirro accusing Hearn of damaging approximately 2 square feet.

>> The National Park Service employees observed Hearn actually forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands.

>> President Trump claims the alleged vandals used box cutters.

>> They came in with box cutters and they cut it up.

>> Today reporters asking what Hearn allegedly used.

>> Did he have any tools or was it just his bare hands?

>> Uh right now we believe it's his bare hands, both hands.

>> So does that indicate in your belief that it was probably damaged before or

do you believe that he

>> Oh, he damaged it.

>> Further, but do you believe that it had already been damaged before?

>> He damaged the pool.

>> Hearn told ABC News he was biking near the pool when he saw a piece of loose paint in the water and reached out and touched the end.

He insists he's no vandal, just a curious concerned citizen.

>> And David, in a statement tonight Hearn's attorneys insist he is innocent

and say, "Quote, these charges are outrageous and should be alarming to every American adding this indictment reflects the administration's effort to shift blame for their own failures."

David.

>> Mary Bruce live at the White House.

Thanks, Mary.