immediately following that september 2 interview, the indianapolis office and local federal prosecutors concluded there was no venue in indianapolis for the federal investigation. both offices also had serious questions as to whether there was federal criminal jurisdiction as opposed to state or local jurisdiction. yet the indianapolis field office didn t advise state or local authorities about the allegations and didn t take any actions to mitigate the risks to gymnasts that nassar was continuing to treat. further that office failed to transfer the case to the fbi office that actually might have had venue despite informing usa gymnastics that it had actually done so. after eight months of fbi inactivity, in may 2016, usa gymnastics officials contacted the fbi s los angeles field office to report the same allegations that it provided to the indianapolis office. following this meeting, the l.a. office opened a federal investigation and undertook numerous investigative steps.
scrutiny in 2017 and 2018, indianapolis officials provided inaccurate information to make it appear that they had actually been diligent in their followup efforts and did so in part by blaming others. in addition, it resulted in the indianapolis supervisory special agent drafting a sumgry of his telephonic interview of ms. maroney from 2015 and that summary included statements as you heard from ms. maroney that didn t accurately reflect what she had told them and could have actually jeopardized the criminal investigations by providing by including false information that could have bolstered nassar s defense. further we concluded that that agent made false testimony/statements to the oig in two interviews that we conducted. we also learned during our investigation that in the fall of 2015 the fbi in indianapolis special agent in charge jay abbott met with usa gymnastics
least heavily involving these child adolescent forensic interviewers. that s why the policy has been strengthened to require them. that s why we ve discouraged as much as possible telephonic interviews at all in these kinds of cases. one of the other, i think, helpful points that came out of inspector general horowitz s report is the clarification that that should also take into account women who are adults at the time of the interview, but who were victimized when they were minors, because that is its own kind of unique sensitivity. so we re trying very hard to push out that program to avoid the kinds of really heartbreaking insensitivity that you just alluded to. the supervisor special agent in indianapolis has now been fired. what took so long to fire him, i
their testimony. you will hear from them. following that the senators will be allowed five minutes to question each of them as who they want, and then following that you will have the fbi director christopher wray and also the inspector general michael horowitz. they will testify, and then be asked questions from the senators. you know, this hearing today stems from the inspector general s report, and it was that report that from that came a statement from senators richard blumenthal and jerry moran that said, this is scathing. what we are seeing is that the fbi indianapolis office knew there were serious accusations against larry nassar, and they did nothing for more than a year. and once they did do something, they falsified the complaint. and when they spoke to the inspector general, they did not tell the truth. and i think the best way to look at this is the time line because in summer of 2015, usa gymnastics went to the fbi in
indianapolis and said we have very credible accusations that larry nassar sexually abused some of our gymnasts. the fbi in indianapolis, why indianapolis? that s where usa gymnastics is based. they said, we ll take care of it. we have gymnast one, gymnast two, and gymnast three. they have never revealed themselves. they will today on the senate floor here. we would like you to interview them. the fbi only interviewed gymnast one. it was a telephonic interview, weeks later. the inspector general said, that s not the way to interview a sexual assault victim by telephone. after that, a few handwritten notes were made. no formal complaint, nothing was done over a year, but they said that they had sent it on to the fbi in lansing. the inspector general said they could never find anything. they showed a communication or complaint was sent to the fbi in lansing. because of that, according to the report, more than 70 young