He called the payment akin to the amount reached in a car crash settlement, not a case involving the hundreds of sexual assaults that he said Mr. Nassar had been accused of committing. Gymnastics plan, Mr. Manly said, each of the more than 500 accusers of Mr. Nassar would receive about $250,000 to $300,000. Mr. Manly said that the offer suggested that the Olympic committee “doesn’t take the sexual abuse of athletes seriously and, frankly, that’s how Larry Nassar was able to do what he did so long.”U.S.A. Gymnastics said the plan gave the victims access to the full value of its insurance policies, which are the only assets available to pay their claims. Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee “knowingly concealed” Mr. Nassar’s abuse.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2020 02:57 UTC