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Ag garland6/19/2023 ![]() Nassar is currently serving a 40-to-174-year state prison sentence after pleading guilty. Garland on Wednesday said that “heart-wrenching is not even strong enough as a description of what happened to those gymnasts and to the testimony they gave.” The FBI recently fired Langeman, the agent who had interviewed Maroney, while Abbott retired in early 2018. TASOS KATOPODIS/AFP/POOL/Getty ImagesĪttorney General Merrick Garland defends memo responding to threats of violence against school board members US Attorney General Merrick Garland is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 27, 2021. ![]() Last month, renowned gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols spoke before a Senate committee about how the FBI botched the investigation and handling of their allegations of sexual abuse against Nassar. Jay Abbott and Michael Langeman – for allegedly failing to pursue the allegations of sexual abuse. The report also revealed that the Justice Department under both Garland and William Barr declined to prosecute either of the two former FBI agents – W. An investigation was opened in 2018 into the FBI’s handling of the case, and a Justice Department inspector general report found that the FBI agents violated the agency’s policies by making false statements and failed to properly document complaints by the accusers. Sexual abuse allegations from gymnasts and the USA Gymnastics organization against Nassar were reported to the FBI in 20. He did not provide further detail about the new evidence. New evidence has come to light and that is cause for review of the matters that you’re discussing,” Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I believe Deputy Attorney General Monaco said at her hearing that we are reviewing this matter. ![]() Simone Biles and other elite gymnasts to testify before Congress about FBI's Larry Nassar investigation
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