The United States Justice Department has agreed to pay around 100 victims of disgraced former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar approximately $100 million for the FBI’s failures to properly investigate reports of Nassar’s sexual assaults against America’s top gymnasts and others, according to a report Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.
If the agreement becomes final, it would push the total amount of settlements in the sprawling legal cases against Nassar to nearly $1 billion. Two attorneys, who between them represent more than 300 of Nassar’s victims, would not confirm details of the proposed settlement when reached Wednesday by ESPN.
The FBI’s failures in the Nassar case are well documented. At a 2021 Senate hearing, FBI director Christopher Wray apologized to survivors of Nassar’s abuse, saying it was “inexcusable” that agents “had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed.”
