Jimmy Feigen, US swimmer in Lochte scandal, pays to leave Rio

One of the U.S. Olympic swimmers caught up in Ryan Lochte's fabricated tale of robbery in Rio reached a deal with authorities to donate almost $11,000 in order to leave Brazil, his lawyer said early Friday.

Gold medal winner Jimmy Feigen will have his passport returned as part of the agreement.

Feigen was one of four swimmers whose taxi ride back from a late-night party ended in a confrontation in at a gas station during which police a bathroom door was vandalized.

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He was prevented from leaving Rio on Wednesday after Lochte's story about being robbed at gunpoint by men posing as police began to unravel under scrutiny from investigators.

"After a long deliberation, this agreement was reached ... he will donate 35,000 real [approximately $10,800] to an institute, and with that the case is resolved," Feigen's lawyer Breno Melaragno told reporters.

He added: "After this donation is done, his passport will be given back to him, and he will be free to return home."

Two other swimmers who were also implicated — Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger — were removed from a flight Wednesday as they tried to leave, but they eventually departed Thursday night after their attorney insisted they had nothing to do with Lochte's story.

Lochte left the country earlier this week.

Police announced Thursday that the four swimmers had not been held at gunpoint after a night of partying, as Lochte first claimed on Sunday.

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They said the the men, while intoxicated, were questioned by security guards over the damaged bathroom door before handing over some cash and leaving in their taxi.

"No robbery was committed against these athletes. They were not victims of the crimes they claimed," Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said during a news conference.

He said investigating officers grew suspicious when security video showed the swimmers returning to the athletes' village wearing watches, which would have likely been taken in a robbery.

Ryan Lochte and the Rio "Robbery" Graphiq

Eventually, a judge issued search and seizure warrants for the passports of Lochte and Feigen, but Lochte had already flown to the U.S.

On Wednesday, Feigen checked in for a flight online but didn't show up at the airport, sources told NBC News.

The saga is an embarrassment for American Olympians, who had otherwise dominated the games, and prompted an apology from U.S. Olympic officials.

"We apologize to our hosts in Rio and the people of Brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence," the U.S. Olympic Committee said.

Bentz and Conger were questioned "only as witnesses," their lawyer Sergio Riera told The Associated Press. "They did not make any untruthful testimony. They did not lie in their statements."

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