Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials repeatedly violated agency policies while responding to sexual abuse allegations against disgraced U.S. gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, …
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials repeatedly violated agency policies while responding to sexual abuse allegations against disgraced U.S. gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, an Inspector General (IG) report found. Investigative “ failures by Indianapolis [FBI] officials contributed to a delay [in investigating Nassar] of over a year,” Department of Justice (DOJ) IG Michael Horowitz wrote in a report released Wednesday. Nassar was sentenced in 2017 to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography, and 40-175 years in prison in 2018 for sexual assault. He molested more than 150 female gymnasts, including some of the sport’s biggest stars. “S enior officials in the FBI Indianapolis Field Office failed to respond to the… Nassar allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency that the allegations deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors wh en they did respond to them, and failed to notify state or lo cal authorities of the allegations or take other steps to mitigate the ongoing threat,” Horowitz wrote.
