Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) US swimmer Ryan Lochte told NBC's Matt Lauer it was his fault that a fabricated story about a robbery caused an international Olympics scandal. "I over-exaggerated that story and if I had never done that we wouldn't be in this mess," he said in a snippet of the interview aired on NBC on Saturday evening. "None of this would have happened," he added about the aftermath in which three of his fellow swimmers were questioned by Brazilian police and one was ordered to donate nearly $11,000 to a Brazilian charity. Lochte, 32 and a four-time Olympian, blamed his "immature behavior."Lochte spoke with NBC's Matt Lauer about incident at gas stationFurther disciplinary action is pendingUSA Swimming to undergo a thorough review of the incident 
 Question:Bentz emphasized that he was never a suspect in the case and that _ law enforcement officials saw him only as a witness.

Brazilian