{"id":1507412,"date":"2022-06-08T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507412"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:34:27","slug":"gold-medalist-simone-biles-scores-of-gymnasts-seek-1b-from-fbi-in-nassar-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gold-medalist-simone-biles-scores-of-gymnasts-seek-1b-from-fbi-in-nassar-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Medalist Simone Biles, Scores of Gymnasts Seek $1B From FBI In Nassar Case"},"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%2Fgold-medalist-simone-biles-scores-of-gymnasts-seek-1b-from-fbi-in-nassar-case%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=1507412&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--><p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">Olympic gold medalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/simone-biles\">Simone Biles<\/a> and nearly 90 more women are seeking $1 billion from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> for its failure to stop sports doctor and convicted child molester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/larry-nassar\">Larry Nassar<\/a> from assaulting them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">The Department of Justice has acknowledged that FBI agents knew as early as 2015 that Larry Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they took no action and his assault on girls and young women he treated for the USA Gymnastics Team continued for more than a year. The approximately 90 claimants include Biles and fellow Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, according to Manly, Stewart &#038; Finaldi, a California law firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">\u201cIt is time for the FBI to be held accountable,\u201d said Maggie Nichols, a national champion gymnast at Oklahoma in 2017-19.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Former Olympic gymnasts, including gold medalist Simone Biles, are among dozens of assault victims who are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop sports doctor Larry Nassar, lawyers said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSmz2ljdZb\">https:\/\/t.co\/MSmz2ljdZb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1534492445370728449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Announcement of the tort claim comes just two weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-fbi-agents-who-dropped-ball-in-usa-gymnastics-molestation-case-wont-be-charged-doj-says\">DOJ announced it would not charge two former FBI agents<\/a> who were found by the department\u2019s inspector general to have lied about their work on the case. Nassar, the now-58-year-old doctor from Michigan State University who is in prison for life for possession of child pornography and molesting at least 10 underage girls. Prosecutors suspect he sexually assaulted hundreds of girls under the guise of rendering medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">\u201cIf the FBI had simply done its job, Nassar would have been stopped before he ever had the chance to abuse hundreds of girls, including me,\u201d said former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-sports-united-states-olympic-team-larry-nassar-gymnastics-45043ed1cba5a19daf61e778ebc00b64\">USA Gymnastics<\/a>\u00a0officials told local FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts claimed Nassar had assaulted them while serving as team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, where Nassar was employed at Michigan State University, according to the DOJ\u2019s inspector general, Michael Horowitz. Agents in\u00a0Los Angeles began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar a year later, but also failed to alert Michigan authorities, Horowitz found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">Nassar was finally arrested in late 2016 during an investigation by Michigan State University police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco ordered a review of the agents involved after several gymnasts gave tearful testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last September, but later decided that neither W. Jay Abbott, who has retired nor Michael Langeman, who was fired last year, would be charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI blame Larry Nassar, and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse,\u201d Biles told lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">At least 330 girls and women have said Nassar molested them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">FBI Director Christopher Wray called the bureau\u2019s failures \u201cinexcusable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cIt never should have happened, and we\u2019re doing everything in our power to make sure it never happens again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and nearly 90 more women are seeking $1 billion from the FBI for its failure to stop sports doctor and convicted child molester Larry Nassar from assaulting them. The Department of Justice has acknowledged that FBI agents knew as early as 2015 that Larry Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1438617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507412","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\/1507412","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}