FBI Hit with $1 Billion Worth of Lawsuits from 90 Women, Including Olympic Gold Medalists
https://www.westernjournal.com/fbi-hit-1-billion-worth-lawsuits-90-women-including-olympic-gold-medalists/High-profile female gymnasts who say the FBI’s bungling allowed a since-convicted sex abuser to prey on vulnerable girls for more than a year have filed a lawsuit against the FBI.
The claims from more than 90 women total more than $1 billion, according to The New York Times.
Those suing include Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney, national gymnastics medalist Maggie Nichols, former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy and former gymnast Kaylee Lorincz, who is now an advocate for victims of sexual assault.
The FBI dropped the ball on Larry Nassar.
The FBI was told in 2015 and in 2016 about Nassar’s activities, but took little action, according to NPR.
“My fellow survivors and I were betrayed by every institution that was supposed to protect us — the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, the FBI and now the Department of Justice,” Maroney said in a statement after that decision, according to the Times. “It is clear that the only path to justice and healing is through the legal process.”
Many members of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic women’s gymnastics teams are listed among Nassar’s victims.
Maroney was among those interviewed by the FBI after the initial claims against Nassar were made.
