The two former FBI agents who mishandled the Larry Nassar investigation will not face federal criminal charges.
Larry Nassar was a doctor at Michigan State University.
The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has serious concerns about the former agents who may have provided the department with inaccurate or incomplete information regarding the Nassar investigation.
The department said that there wasn't enough evidence to bring a federal criminal case against the agents.
The DOJ said that the decision doesn't reflect a belief that the investigation into Nassar was properly handed.
The announcement did not mention W. Jay Abbott, the former special agent in charge of the bureau's Indianapolis field office, or Michael Langeman, who was assigned to investigate abuse allegations against Nassar in 2015.
The OIG concluded that Abbott and other Indianapolis agents tried to cover up the slow and incomplete investigation of Nassar in 2015.
The Indianapolis Star reported some of the allegations against Nassar.
The FBI was accused of allowing Nassar to continue abusing his patients for 16 months through its ineffectual investigation.
After the OIG released a highly critical report, Abbott retired from the FBI and Langeman was fired. The FBI's bungling of the Nassar case was due to the bureau's attitudes, according to former agents Jane Turner and Mike German.
Nassar was one of the world's most prominent sports doctors prior to his arrest in 2016 after hundreds of girls and women accused him of sexually abusing them. Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault and child pornography charges. The FBI is accused of allowing Nassar to get away with his crimes, as well as the national governing body for the sport, USA Gymnastics. The athletes settled their lawsuit for $380 million.
The investigation into Disgraced Gymnastics Coach Larry Nassar was mishandled by the FBI.
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