The source bodies captured at publish time for The government charged a retired Olympian with felony vandalism after the $14 million Reflecting Pool lining peeled — then its own filing said the damage wasn't vandalism at all, and four newsrooms wrote four different verbs for the same twenty-page reversal: admits, moved to dismiss, drops and admits, abandons — each with the quoted spans highlighted at their character offsets. This is the frozen record the audit was checked against.
