The US government is going to give around $100 million to about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
The agreement is not finished yet and no money has been given, the person who told us this cannot be named because they are not allowed to talk about it until an official announcement is made.
An inquiry found that FBI agents didn’t handle abuse claims by women well over a year before Nassar was arrested in 2016.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report about the settlement. A person from the Justice Department said they didn’t want to talk about it.
Nassar was a doctor for the sports teams at Michigan State University and also worked as a doctor for USA Gymnastics in Indianapolis. He is in prison for many years for hurting female athletes, including Olympic gymnasts, when he pretended to help them.
Lawyers have accused the government of not doing anything about allegations against Nassar that FBI agents knew about for 15 months in 2015 in Indianapolis and Los Angeles. The inspector general of the Justice Department found some big mistakes.
Nassar kept hurting people until he was arrested in the fall of 2016, according to the authorities.
The attack survivors are famous Olympians Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
“I’m sorry that many people have disappointed you so many times,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray to survivors at a Senate hearing in 2021. “I feel really sorry that some people at the FBI could have stopped this bad person in 2015 but they didn’t. ”
The Michigan attorney general’s office took care of the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in western Michigan charged him with child sex abuse images.
Michigan State University has agreed to pay $500 million to over 300 women and girls who were hurt by Nassar. They were accused of not stopping Nassar when they had the chance. The organization for gymnastics in the United States and the government The Olympic and Paralympic Committee agreed to pay $380 million as a settlement.
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Attorneys of Nassar assault victims struck $100m agreement with Justice Department
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Probe into Donald Trump’s confidential documents and election tampering cost $9 million
Investigations into the suspected misuse of confidential materials by the former president Donald Trump and his attempts to rig the 2020 election have cost more than $9 million.
According to a Justice Department summary of expenditures filed on Friday, the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who is in charge of the investigations, spent more than $5.4 million on employee wages, travel, rent, and supplies from November 2022 until the end of March.
According to the budget breakdown, Smith was supported by an additional $3.8 million from Justice Department entities.
That includes ‘the cost of protective details for the Special Counsel when warranted’, states the document.
Former President Donald Trump (second from right) appeared on classified document charges after a federal indictment at Wilkie D Ferguson Jr United States Courthouse, alongside his aide Walt Nauta (far left) and attorneys Chris Kise and Todd Blanche in Miami, Florida, on June 13 (Picture: Reuters) 
The indictment contained an image showing boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in ex-President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate (Picture: AP) The statement of expenditures was disclosed a few weeks after Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges around his alleged mishandling of classified documents, and a day after his valet Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty to six charges relating to him allegedly assisting Trump in hiding classified records.
While the Justice Department’s investigations into Trump have cost American taxpayers millions of dollars, Trump’s indictment in the classified documents case has boosted his 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump on the day after he was criminally charged at a Miami federal courthouse said that the ‘indictment hoax’ raised him $6.6million. The former president said that $2.1million of that was donated at his Bedminster golf club where he delivered a speech hours after his arraignment. The other $4.5million came from digital fundraising.
The Justice Department on Friday also released cost summaries of investigations by two other special counsels.
Special counsel John Durham – who was appointed to investigate the FBI’s probe of Trump and the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election – spent $1.1million from October to March winding down his inquiry. Durham’s investigation has cost a total of about $7.6million since he was tasked in 2020 during the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Hur, who is probing whether President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents found in his home and former office, spent $615,962 in two-and-a-half month covered by the summary.