On December 13, 2021, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robyn Moberly confirmed a joint Plan of Reorganization providing a $380 million settlement for sexual abuse survivors and enabling USA Gymnastics to emerge from bankruptcy after three years of proceedings. Over 90% of the more than 500 victims voted in …
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On September 15, 2021, Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s catastrophic mishandling of sexual abuse allegations against Larry Nassar. The athletes’ testimony …
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On August 13, 2019, just days before his death, Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Larry Nassar from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York—a communication discovered returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s suicide. The letter, which was submitted to the …
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On May 16, 2018, Michigan State University agreed to pay $500 million to settle lawsuits brought by 332 survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse—the largest settlement ever in a sexual misconduct case involving a university, surpassing Penn State’s $100+ million settlement with Jerry …
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On September 12, 2016, the Indianapolis Star published an investigation exposing Larry Nassar’s systematic sexual abuse of gymnasts, breaking the story that the FBI had failed to investigate for over a year. The newspaper investigation, led by reporters who uncovered the FBI’s …
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On July 28, 2015, officials in the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office met with USA Gymnastics leadership who reported sexual abuse allegations against team doctor Larry Nassar from three young gymnasts. The FBI failed to formally document this meeting, failed to properly handle and document …
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Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt opens the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania under U.S. government authorization, establishing the blueprint for more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools nationwide designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children through cultural …
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