Breaking: The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to release a report that criticizes the FBI’s handling of its investigation into a former Olympic team doctor accused of molesting scores of young gymnasts.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to release a report Wednesday that criticizes the FBI’s handling of its investigation into a former Olympic team doctor accused of molesting scores of young gymnasts, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The investigation centers on allegations that the FBI failed to properly pursue sexual assault allegations involving Larry Nassar, a team doctor for the U.S. Olympic team, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University. Nassar, 57, has been accused by hundreds of athletes of having molested them under the guise of providing medical treatment.
The Justice Department’s Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, launched an investigation in 2018 into why FBI agents did not appear to take seriously complaints about Nassar. USA Gymnastics, the sport’s governing body that oversees the U.S. Olympic team, reported its concerns to the FBI about Nassar in mid-2015, but agents appear to have allowed their inquiry to languish for more than a year, according to a 2018 report by the Ropes & Gray law firm that was commissioned by the U.S.
Nassar was sentenced in 2018 to between 40 and 175 years in prison after having pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and possession of child pornography.
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