Lochte lost four major sponsors early this week over the controversy, including Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren.
Clergy members say some good may come out of the controversy, including a deeper conversation on race.
The controversy included evidence that Mr. Raiolo had defaulted on mortgages for investment properties he had bought in Florida.
The Justice Department's campaign finance task force is already conducting a criminal investigation of the controversy, including contentions that White House officials threatened the computer specialists who discovered the problem to keep the matter under wraps.
Biden's trip enables him to have face-to-face contact with all the regional players with a stake in the controversy, including South Korea, where he will spend two days meeting senior government officials at the end of the week.
Others caught up in the controversy include Jamaica's sprinter Merlene Ottey, the Czech tennis player Petr Korda, Christophe Dugarry from France's World Cup-winning team and the British boxer Jon Thaxton.
Changes made since the controversy include a new "world class DNA testing system", a new website about food, a new agriculture director and "a root and branch review of our supply chain, bringing food closer to home".
Evidence in the controversy included a photograph of Oh said to have been taken at the summit a claim Pasaban disputed and the conflicting testimony of the Sherpa guides who had accompanied her up that mountain.
The ombudsman was subsequently critical of ESPN's decision-making in the controversy, including the length of time it took to respond to the torrent on Twitter and its willingness to let Feldman write a book with someone on his beat, much less someone as prominent as Leach was.
Indeed, leading poets have chimed in on the controversy, including U Maung Sein Win, who wrote a short poem called "Dead River," which includes this passage: Whole forests are cleared and mountains laid bare Sand bars emerge at the narrows Not so far in the future, Myanmar's people may disappear Did we drink our own blood?
