after that minute of silence, he asked, is that all? those words in itself was one of the worst moments of this entire process for me. reporter: her case was one of the first to be referred to the f.b.i. in july 2015, but the bureau failed to properly investigate, according to an internal justice department report, waiting more than a year before opening a formal probe. by then, approximately 70 other young athletes had been assaulted by nassar, who was later convicted. the f.b.i. and others within both u.s.a.g., and u.s.o.p.c., knew that nassar molested children and did nothing to restrict his access. reporter: days before the hearing, the f.b.i. fired one of the lead agents on the case as senators pressed director christopher wray on the failures. what am i missing here?ay one failures. what i don t have a what am i missing here? i don t have a good explanation for you. it is utterly jarring to me. reporter: wray apologized and said the bureau will not let thi
critical reforms are being undertaken to ensure that events such as these do not occur again. let me briefly summarize the results of our investigation. in july 2015, usa gymnastics reported the sexual assault allegations against nassar to the fbi s indianapolis field office. usa gymnastics officials described graphic information that had been provided by ms. maroney, ms. nichols and ms. raisman and performed the fbi that all three athletes were available to be interviewed. however it wasn t until six weeks later on september 2 that the indianapolis office interviewed ms. maroney by telephone as you heard and neither ms. nichols nor ms. raisman were ever interviewed by that office. moreover, the indianapolis office did not formally document its interview of ms. maroney at the time or its july meeting with usa gymnastics. the office also didn t formally open an investigation or an assessment of the matter.
treat as you would any physical injury. i would like to ask you, i know at least one of the athletes in the room was abused after july 2015. let me just ask each of you, you can answer yes or no whether you know of a leets that were abused by larry nassar after july 2015 during the 18 month period when the fbi nids nothing. you can just say yes, you do, if you want to tell me how many, if you know. if not, just yes or no. yes. kalie lorenz is here today and she was abused after i spoke out. yes. yes.
critical reforms are being undertaken to ensure that events such as these do not occur again. let me briefly summarize the results of our investigation. in july 2015, usa gymnastics reported the sexual assault alleg allegations to the fbi field office. usa gymnastics officials described graphic information provided and informed the fbi that all three athletes were available to be interviewed. however, it wasn t until six weeks later on september 2nd that the indianapolis office interviewed ms. maroney by telephone, as you heard. and neither ms. nichols nor ms. raisman were ever interviewed by that office. it did not document or formally open an investigation or an assessment of the matter.
but critically it didn t contact state or local authorities and it didn t take action to mitigate the ongoing threat presented by nassar. it wasn t until august 2016 when michigan state university police department received a separate assault complaint from another gymnast. in september 2016, the next month, the msu police department executed a court authorized search of nassar s residence. among other things they seized devices containing over 30,000 images of child pornography. according to civil court documents, approximately 70 or more young athletes were allegedly sexually abused by nassar under the guise of medical treatment between july 2015, when the fbi first received these allegations, until september 2016. we further found when the fbi s handling of the nassar matter