Justice Department to pay $138.7 million to settle with ex-USA gymnastics official Larry Nassar victims
Source: CBS News
Updated on: April 23, 2024 / 12:56 PM EDT
Washington — The Justice Department and more than 100 victims of former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar reached a civil settlement over allegations that FBI agents failed to properly investigate the gymnasts' claims of abuse against the now-convicted doctor.
Superstar Olympian Simone Biles and fellow U.S. gold medalists Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney are among the victims who claimed the FBI did not pursue allegations that Nassar was abusing his patients.
The U.S. will pay $138.7 million to settle 139 claims against the FBI, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
A 2021 Justice Department watchdog report confirmed that FBI agents did not take the proper investigative steps when they first learned that Nassar was sexually abusing young gymnasts in 2015. Those failures, according to the Justice Department inspector general, left the physician free to continue abusing patients for months. The FBI agents were either fired or retired, and in May 2022, federal prosecutors said they would not pursue criminal charges against the agents involved in those missteps.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/larry-nassar-victims-justice-department-settlement-fbi/
Link to DOJ PRESS RELEASE - Justice Department Reaches Civil Settlement with Victims Abused by Lawrence Nassar
As a sidenote - unless DOJ has some fund already set aside from their existing monies for something like this, then they will need Congress to appropriate the money for it and in the past, that often gets hung up thanks to some rogue members.
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