Similar administrative tort claims were made on April 21. In one obtained by CelebHomes News, it is alleged that one of the victims suffered “significant and irreparable personal injury at the hands of Nassar following the FBI Indianapolis Field Office’s lackluster investigation and failure to follow strict protocol and procedures outlined by the DOJ [Department of Justice].”
The claim states, “If not for the employees of the FBI’s negligence, gross negligence, wrongful acts, and omissions, [the victim]You would not have suffered from continual physical trauma or abuse, mental anguish and emotional trauma.
The FBI has now six months to reply to the claims. The victims can file civil suit against the FBI if the agency fails to reach an agreement within the time limit.
CelebHomes News reached to FBI for clarification, but they have not yet responded.
It is not the first time that the FBI has been held accountable for how it handled the case. Last July, a 119-page Justice Department report criticized the bureau’s investigation into the allegations against Nassar, stating that the FBI’s field office in Indianapolis “failed to respond to the Nassar allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and violated multiple FBI policies.”