Victims of Larry Nassar will receive $100 million

Around 100 victims of Larry Nassar, former doctor of the US gymnastics team, will receive approximately 100 million dollars from the US Department of Justice for the errors committed by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) during the follow-up of the complaints. for sexual assault against dozens of athletes, as reported yesterday The Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper added that if said agreement is finalized, the total amount of the agreements in the growing legal cases against Nassar could increase to almost one billion, since after the 100, an agreement of 380 agreed in 2021 with USA Gymnastics would follow. and the States Paralympic Committee, and another of 500 million established in 2018 with Michigan State University.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2021, FBI Director Christopher Wray apologized to Nassar’s victims and acknowledged that it was unforgivable that the detectives They had their own chance to stop this monster in 2015 and they will fail..

In the summer of that year, after conducting a five-week internal investigation, USA Gymnastics officials first reported to FBI agents in Indianapolis that three athletes on the gymnastics team accused Nassar of sexually assaulting them during treatment sessions.

A report from the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General conducted in July 2021 found that Despite the extraordinarily serious nature of the allegations and the possibility that Nassar’s conduct could continue, senior officials at the FBI’s Indianapolis field office did not respond to the allegations against the doctor with the utmost seriousness and urgency..

This document also specifies that the agents they did not carry out any investigation for five weeks, and then refused to transfer the matter to the regional office in Lansing, Michigan, where Nassar continued to work as an osteopathic physician at Michigan State University.

Likewise, the report details that after conducting a single interview in September 2015, the FBI did not carry out no investigation related to the matter for more than eight monthsso Nassar’s sexual assaults continued, affecting approximately 100 women.