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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Michigan State University has admitted that they failed the victims of this monster who abused hundreds of women. This monster is currently in federal time out for LIFE after he was found guilty of sexual abuse.
He committed sexual abuse of young athletes and the subsequent cover-up ultimately led to the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal that began in 2015, alleging that the monster repeatedly sexually assaulted at least 265 young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment.
His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts.
FBI officials in Indianapolis first learned of allegations against the monster in July 2015. Agents waited five weeks to conduct any interviews on the matter and then failed to follow protocol in sharing information with others in the bureau and other law enforcement agencies. The monster, who later pleaded guilty to sexually abusing gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment, continued to see patients for more than a year until a separate complaint made to police in Michigan resulted in his arrest. More than 70 women and girls claim in civil lawsuits that the monster sexually assaulted them during that year long period after the FBI received complaints about him.
The report said the FBI officials on the case did not respond with the "seriousness and urgency" required by serious allegations. The investigators also found the supervisory special agent in Indianapolis failed to properly document complaints, mishandled evidence and made false statements about the case. A now-retired FBI agent made false statements under oath as well, leading a pair of U.S. senators to call for criminal charges.
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| The father of one of those victims was trying "Bum rush the show." |
"There were a number of documents and oral statements made to investigators that were plainly false," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who led a Congressional investigation of the case along with Sen. Karen Moran (R-KS). "I would like to know why there were no criminal charges and whether these agents will be held accountable. There has to be a measure of accountability."
Wednesday's report says W. Jay Abbott, the special agent in charge of the case in Indianapolis, provided false statements to the justice department investigators about his interest in working for USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee. The investigators also found that Abbott showed "extremely poor judgement" in the relationship he developed in 2015 with then-USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny.
Abbott met Penny at a bar in Indianapolis in October 2015, three months after Penny first provided the FBI with information about the monster. The two men discussed a potential job for Abbott as a security officer for the U.S Olympic Committee after he retired from the FBI. Penny recommended Abbott for the position in an email he sent to the USOC's chief security officer. According to the report, Abbott later applied for that position in 2017 and considered applying to replace Penny as the USA Gymnastics president when Penny resigned under pressure as news of the allegations garnered more attention. Abbott told the inspector general's office under oath in 2019 that he never expressed interest in those positions.
Abbott retired from the FBI in January 2018, one month after the monster pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges.
In response to Wednesday's report, FBI assistant director Douglas Leff wrote that Abbott's conduct was "particularly troubling" and "is not representative of the FBI or of our tens of thousands of retirees and current employees." Leff wrote that the supervisory special agent, who was not named in the report, is no longer a supervisor and that the bureau "took immediate action to ensure that the individual is not working on FBI matters."
Attorney John Manly, who represents more than 150 of that monster's survivors, joined the senators in calling for the attorney general to pursue criminal charges against the FBI agents in Indianapolis.
"These women and girls not only deserved to have their case thoroughly investigated but deserved the respect and full attention of those investigating their case," Manly said in a statement. "Instead, at least two senior FBI agents lied, intentionally fabricated a victim's statement, and falsely denied any crime had been committed, in order to protect USA Gymnastics; presumably in exchange for the prospect of a high paying post bureau job in the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee."
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| Pedophile admits to molesting 10 of the 265 young women and girls. |
The monster remains in federal prison, where he is serving a 60-year sentence for child pornography charges that stem from material police found on his property in September 2016. He also pleaded guilty in 2018 to 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan state court, which added up to 175 years to his time in prison.
Penny was arrested in October 2018 on charges of felony evidence tampering related to a separate incident when he allegedly instructed an employee to remove documents from the Texas training facility where the monster treated many Olympic-level gymnasts. His attorneys have previously told ESPN that any assertion that Penny was trying to curry favor with Abbott by helping him find a post-retirement job with the U.S. Olympic Committee is "absurd."
"The only favor that Steve wanted from Agent Abbott or anyone at the FBI was for them to promptly and thoroughly investigate [the suspect]," the attorneys said.
The FBI's investigation was neither prompt nor thorough, according to the inspector general's report. FBI agents in Indianapolis interviewed only one of the three gymnasts who told USA Gymnastics officials about the monster's conduct in 2015. The FBI did not formally document or open an investigation, according to Wednesday's report.
Investigators found that an assistant U.S. attorney advised the Indianapolis-based agents in September 2015 to transfer their case to the FBI's Lansing Resident Agency in Michigan, where the monster lived and saw most of his patients. The Indianapolis office failed to make that transfer, despite telling USA Gymnastics officials that they had shared information with their colleagues in Michigan.
Eight months later, in May 2016, USA Gymnastics officials contacted the FBI's Los Angeles field office to raise the same concerns about the monster. Agents in Los Angeles said they found no record of a formal complaint filed in Indianapolis. According to the inspector general, the Los Angeles field office interviewed several of the monster's alleged victims but "did not take any action to mitigate the risk to gymnasts that he continued to treat."
Meanwhile, Penny told the families of gymnasts Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols and McKayla Maroney not to speak to others about their claims against the monster. Penny's attorneys said he was under the impression that public mentions of allegations against the monster could jeopardize the FBI's investigations.
The monster was allowed to quietly resign from his post as national medical coordinator for the women's national team in September 2015. He continued to see gymnasts in Michigan for a full year before he was arrested.
The inspector general's office recommended that the FBI should update and clarify several of its policies, including how it shares information with other law enforcement agencies. Blumenthal and Moran said they hope to hold a Congressional hearing in the near future to understand why the justice department did not pursue criminal charges as a result of the report.
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