Gonna sue you for a BILLION dollars
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Gymnasts File $1 Billion Claims Against FBI
More than 90 women and girls, including the star gymnasts who raised concerns about Larry Nassar in 2015 that were disregarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, filed administrative tort claims against the agency on Wednesday collectively seeking $1 billion.
The claimants include Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman, the elite gymnasts who were first identified in the summer of 2015 as having been sexually abused by the then-doctor to the national women’s gymnastics team under the guise of medical treatment.
The group also includes dozens of Nassar patients sexually assaulted by him for more than a year after the FBI was alerted to the gymnasts’ concerns, their lawyers said.
The claims draw on a report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general last year that was sharply critical of the FBI. The report found that FBI agents in Indianapolis—who received an initial visit from USA Gymnastics to report Nassar on July 28, 2015—didn’t take the claims seriously, document the evidence they received or transfer the allegations to the FBI’s resident agency in Lansing, Mich. The report also found the agents later made false statements to cover their mistakes.
Nassar continued to see patients for almost 14 months after USA Gymnastics went to the FBI. He was publicly accused of assault in the fall of 2016, and by early 2018 had been sentenced to an effective life sentence in prison on sexual abuse and child-pornography charges.
Gladwell, in "Talking to Strangers" had an interesting take on the Nasser story, by the way.
Also, agents made false statements? Were they frog-marched to jail? LOL.
