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Nice post, Alethea. TY. We appreciate and value your expertise. For the most part, I agreed with your response, except for the portions I left behind. The FBI does not
always taking crimes against children seriously. For one prime example:
Former FBI Agents Blame ‘Misogynist’ Culture For Botched Larry Nassar Investigation
"Two Indianapolis FBI agents were assigned to the [Larry Nassar] case:
W. Jay Abbott, then the special agent in charge of the city’s FBI office, and
Michael Langeman, at the time a supervisory special agent.
Instead of receiving help, Maroney ― along with fellow gymnasts Aly Raisman, Simone Biles and Maggie Nichols ― were ignored.
Their accusations of serial child sexual abuse were dismissed. Abbott and Langeman not only failed to interview all of the victims who initially came forward, they conducted very limited follow-up interviews with key witnesses and
never notified other law enforcement agencies of potential crimes in their jurisdictions. In fact, Abbott and Langeman never formally opened an investigation into Nassar.
Over the eight months that followed, Abbott and Langeman did nothing. At one point,
Abbott, the more senior of the two agents, met with then-USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny, but only to discuss a potential job opportunity with the U.S. Olympic Committee (Abbott saw this as a possible opportunity to get a job!). During this time, Nassar abused at least 70 more girls and women, according to a Department of Justice report.
When the two agents were confronted with their misconduct in 2017 ― after Nassar was
sentenced to
life in prison for sexually abusing hundreds of young athletes ― they blamed others.
They made false statements and omitted integral information about their initial investigation. The two agents later lied to investigators from the inspector general’s office in order “to minimize errors made by the Indianapolis Field Office,” according to the DOJ report, which came out in July and brought renewed attention to the botched investigation.
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I won't post more of the article but it is not complimentary of the FBI, in general.
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