Without knowing anything about the details of it, I am immediately suspicious of the truth of the swimming-pool allegation simply because of how universally it

Without knowing anything about the details of it, I am immediately suspicious of the truth of the swimming-pool allegation simply because of how universally it is mentioned in discussions of Greece's economic situation. Anything which gets used that ubiquitously, in my experience, ends up debunked on Snopes or Politifact sooner or later.