The Justice Department’s inspector general released a report Wednesday detailing the FBI’s mismanagement of the investigation into sexual assault accusations against USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
July 14 (UPI) — FBI officials failed to properly document sexual assault accusations made against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar and made false statements regarding the case, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Wednesday. The inspector general released the report from its 2018 investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Nassar case, finding that officials with the Indianapolis Field Office failed to respond to the allegations “with the utmost seriousness an urgency that they deserved and required” and made “numerous and fundamental errors” when they did respond. The report stated that 70 or more athletes were sexually abused by Nassar between when USA Gymnastics first reported the allegations to the FBI and August 2016 when a separate complaint was filed with the police department at Michigan State University, where Nassar also worked.
