Simone Biles & other gymnasts seek $1billion from FBI for mishandling Larry Nassar sex abuse case

Many former Olympic gymnasts, such as gold-medalist Simone Biles, are looking for more than one billion dollars from the FBI. This comes as a sort of punishment for the FBI for not stopping Doctor Nassar from the crimes of sexual assault on young girls in gymnastics. The victims' lawyers issued this statement on Wednesday, the 8th of June.

Why is the FBI at fault in this case?

It is a fact that the FBI knew of Nassar and his crimes back in 2015. He was accused of molestation by gymnasts, but they did not react. This led Nassar to continue his heinous crimes and torture young girls for over a year.


Some of the local reporters were told by Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics that back in 2015, three gymnasts were sexually assaulted by Nassar, the team doctor. But the FBI failed to report this crime and did not open a formal investigation.

According to an internal watchdog, the inspector general of the Justice Department, the FBI never reported this to the federal or the state authorities of Michigan.

FBI agents in Los Angeles also investigated this case in 2016. They opened up a sexual tourism investigation and even continued to interview several sexually assaulted victims. But the account of the Inspector General states that they did not report this to the authorities in Michigan State.

Under federal law, any government agency has six months to retaliate against such allegations against anyone. If not, the federal department risks facing lawsuits. However, in May, the Justice Department said they would not file any criminal charges against those FBI agents who failed to take action against Nassar.

What happened to Nassar ultimately?

Since Nassar was a doctor at Michigan State, he was later arrested in 2016 when the Michigan State University police took the investigation into their own hands.

The Michigan attorney general finally handled the case of Nassar with a child pornography case established by Grand Rapids of Michigan. Nassar is set to face at least ten years in jail.

What are people and the FBI saying about this?

National Champion gymnast of Oklahoma in 2017-2019, Maggie Nichols, said that the FBI should take responsibility for their actions and face the consequences.

Samantha Roy, a former gymnast from the University of Michigan, said that if the FBI had done what was right by everyone, Nassar would have been behind bars before he could molest hundreds of girls, including herself.

When the small claims were filed, the FBI first refused to comment on this case in April. They mentioned the comment of FBI's Director, Christopher Wray, to the Congress. Wray said he apologises and deems it inexcusable that the FBI did not take action. He admits that the FBI had the chance to send this monster to prison in 2015.

Michigan State University was also held accountable for ignoring this monstrous activity. They apologise for missing the opportunity to put Nassar behind bars. They have agreed to pay over 500 million dollars to 300 girls who were victims of this assault.

The US Olympics and Paralympic Committee and USA Gymnastics have agreed to pay 380 million dollars to the victims.