{"id":1451167,"date":"2022-04-23T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451167"},"modified":"2022-04-23T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T11:44:45","slug":"larry-nassar-victims-sue-fbi-for-130-million-for-not-investigating-sexual-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-nassar-victims-sue-fbi-for-130-million-for-not-investigating-sexual-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Nassar Victims Sue FBI for $130 Million for Not Investigating Sexual Abuse Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flarry-nassar-victims-sue-fbi-for-130-million-for-not-investigating-sexual-abuse-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-04\/FBIBadge.jpg?h=dbfb23f9&#038;itok=CsOs-5Wi\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Thirteen women sexually assaulted by former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for $10 million after the agency covered up the scandal in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Although the FBI was alerted to Nassar&#8217;s perpetration of sexual abuse in 2015, the agency didn\u2019t investigate for eight months. During this period, Nassar assaulted more women and minor children under the pretense of medical care.<\/p>\n<p>A 119-page Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/21-093.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), a waste watchdog, identified multiple agency mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the report found the Indianapolis Field Office didn\u2019t document the 2015 victim interview about Nassar&#8217;s criminal sexual assaults until 17 months later. Moreover, the FBI report included \u201cmaterially false information and omitted material information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ found that one FBI agent, \u201cin an effort to minimize or excuse his errors, made false statements during two OIG-compelled interviews regarding his interview of one of Nassar\u2019s victims.\u201d Another agent lied to cover mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, for which the victims aren\u2019t named, is filed under The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which aims to compensate individuals who have suffered personal injury, death, or property loss or damage caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of an employee of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the negligent party named is the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, FBI Director Christopher Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/testimony\/dereliction-of-duty-examining-the-inspector-generals-report-on-the-fbis-handling-of-the-larry-nassar-investigation-091521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Congress about the scandal: \u201cI want to be crystal clear: The actions \u2013 and inaction \u2013 of the FBI employees detailed in this report are totally unacceptable,\u201d Wray said. \u201cThese individuals betrayed the core duty that they have of protecting people. They failed to protect young women and girls from abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nassar was employed as an osteopathic physician and associate professor at Michigan State University\u2019s (MSU) Department of Family and Community Medicine, where he treated patients from 1996 through 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that so many different people let you down, over and over again,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed. And that&#8217;s inexcusable. It never should have happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nassar was arrested and charged in November 2016 with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct. He&#8217;s serving a 60-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen women sexually assaulted by former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for $10 million after the agency covered up the scandal in 2015.Although<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}