Attorneys of Nassar assault victims struck $100m agreement with Justice Department

The US government is going to give around $100 million to about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

The agreement is not finished yet and no money has been given, the person who told us this cannot be named because they are not allowed to talk about it until an official announcement is made.

An inquiry found that FBI agents didn’t handle abuse claims by women well over a year before Nassar was arrested in 2016.

The Wall Street Journal was the first to report about the settlement. A person from the Justice Department said they didn’t want to talk about it.

Nassar was a doctor for the sports teams at Michigan State University and also worked as a doctor for USA Gymnastics in Indianapolis. He is in prison for many years for hurting female athletes, including Olympic gymnasts, when he pretended to help them.

Lawyers have accused the government of not doing anything about allegations against Nassar that FBI agents knew about for 15 months in 2015 in Indianapolis and Los Angeles. The inspector general of the Justice Department found some big mistakes.

Nassar kept hurting people until he was arrested in the fall of 2016, according to the authorities.

The attack survivors are famous Olympians Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.

“I’m sorry that many people have disappointed you so many times,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray to survivors at a Senate hearing in 2021. “I feel really sorry that some people at the FBI could have stopped this bad person in 2015 but they didn’t. ”

The Michigan attorney general’s office took care of the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in western Michigan charged him with child sex abuse images.

Michigan State University has agreed to pay $500 million to over 300 women and girls who were hurt by Nassar. They were accused of not stopping Nassar when they had the chance. The organization for gymnastics in the United States and the government The Olympic and Paralympic Committee agreed to pay $380 million as a settlement.