EAST LANSING (MI)
Legal Reader
November 21, 2018
By Ryan J. Farrick
Michigan State University’s former and long-time president, Lou Anna Simon, has been charged with two felony and misdemeanor counts of allegedly lying to law enforcement officials investigating Larry Nassar.
Nassar, a USA Gymnastics physician convicted of molesting scores of patients, has already been sentenced to serve up to 125 years in prison.
Simon, reports NPR, repeatedly told officials that she didn’t know Michigan State’s Title IX office and police department had opened an investigation into Nassar following a 2014 complaint. While Nassar was eventually cleared by the university, Simon later said hadn’t been told the sports medicine practitioner’s name.
“In fact she knew it was Larry Nassar who was the subject,” investigators claim.
Nassar pled guilty in early 2018 to federal child pornography charges and 10 counts of criminal sexual misconduct in Michigan.
If Simon’s found guilty of the charges filed against her, she too could face time behind bars—up to four years, according to the Associated Press.
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