Federal Collective Administrative Claims filed Wednesday allege the FBI mishandled its investigation of the former USA Gymnastics and Olympic team physician.
Shortly after the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal broke in September 2016, W. Jay Abbott, the Special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis, reached out to USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny.The email was among dozens of exchanges between the two men from July 28, 2015 when Penny first informed Abbott and two other FBI special agents of allegations that Nassar, then the U.S.
“The FBI knew that Larry Nassar was a danger to children when his abuse of me was first reported in 2015,” Nichols said in a statement. “For 421 days they worked with USA Gymnastics and USOPC to hide this information from the public and allowed Nassar to continue molesting young women and girls. It is time for the FBI to be held accountable.”
The DOJ decision followed more than a year of pressure from Capitol Hill, Olympians and other Nassar survivors and the public to reverse an earlier decision not to charge Abbott and Langeman for making false statements during a DOJ Office of the Inspector General investigation of the Nassar case. The favors included Penny asking agents to withhold information from potential victims, according to emails. Penny in turn recommended Abbott during this same time period to U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee officials for the organization’s top security job.
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