What is the truth about Larry Nassar? What was the Larry Nassar settlement?

Lawrence Gerard Nassar was born on August 16, 1963, and is an American serial child rapist and former sports medicine physician.

For 18 years, he was the team doctor of the United States women’s national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit, deceive, and sexually assault hundreds of children and young women.

Nassar’s sexual abuse of young girls and women and the subsequent cover-up led to the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal that began in 2015, alleging that Nassar 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.

Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to child pornography and tampering with evidence charges on July 11, 2017.

On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of sexual assault.

On February 5, 2018, he was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty to an additional three counts of sexual assault in Eaton County.

On the orders of the judge in charge of the federal case, his state prison sentences are to run consecutively with his federal sentence, ensuring a de facto sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

Nassar will be transferred to a Michigan state prison when he is released from federal custody; his two state sentences will be served concurrently. He is a central figure in the 2020 film Athlete A, a documentary about the scandal.

What is the truth about Larry Nassar?

In addition to his federal prison sentence, Nassar was sentenced in a Michigan state court to up to 175 years in prison after more than 150 women and girls said in court he sexually abused them over the past two decades.

What was the Larry Nassar settlement?

USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and their insurers agreed to pay $380 million in a settlement with the victims of Larry Nassar, the former Olympic doctor who sexually abused girls for decades.