Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been getting protection from gangsters in exchange for ‘sexual favors,’ according to an inmate.
Grace Pinson, a now transgender inmate who is currently incarcerated in Allentown, Pennsylvania, told the New York Post that Nassar, who was sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for abusing gymnasts and children, pays for his protection by providing ‘sexual favors’ and money to others.
Nassar, 60, worked at Michigan State University and also served as a team doctor at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics.
He’s now serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.
An inmate who served with Larry Nassar said that he has been paying off Mexican gang members inside with money and ‘sexual favors’ in exchange for protection
Nassar is serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman
Pinson, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending a threatening letter to former President George W. Bush in 2005, explained that around June 2021, Nassar was seen entering a Sumter County, Florida Federal prison cell with Mexican gang members.
The cell door remained shut and the windows were covered, which only happens when inmates are doing drugs or having sex, according to Pinson.
‘Larry Nassar has decided… sucking d*** is a better way… of staying alive,’ Pinson told the New York Post.
The inmate referred to Nassar as a ‘scared little church mouse’ who would only leave his cell to visit the chapel, where the two would talk about his paid protection.
‘He wished he didn’t need those guys. In some ways what they expected of him was worse than the idea of being stabbed and killed,’ Pinson said.
She said that Nassar allegedly paid the gang members ‘a couple hundred dollars a month’ to protect him inside. Pinson added that the members initially informed her about the deal.
The prisoner said that she also saw a phone that her cellmate had that gangsters would often use to discuss business and manage drug transactions.
Pinson believes that the gang members force the child molester to perform ‘sexual favors’ as a way to ‘humiliate and degrade’ Nassar for what he did to the girls.
‘Making Larry Nassar suck your d*** in prison– it’s a twisted way of paying him back for what he did to those women,’ Pinson said.
Pinson believes that the gang members force the child molester to perform ‘sexual favors’ as a way to ‘humiliate and degrade’ Nassar for what he did to the girls. (pictured: Nassar’s victims at the Senate Jury Hearing in 2021)
Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018, revealing in a powerful tweet that she was one of Nassar’s victims. (Pictured: Biles testifying during the 2021 Senate Hearing)
Nassar has since been transferred to a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He declined to be interviewed by the New York Post, and Scott Taylor, the Bureau of Prisons spokesman, declined to comment on Pinson’s claims.
‘You’re not going to risk your life for Larry Nassar for a couple of hundred bucks,’ Pinson said.
Meanwhile, Jose Rojas, the former president of the Coleman prison officers’ union, did not agree with Pinson’s claims.
Rojas said that Nassar was held in the ‘dropout’ unit which is considered safer than general population, where he was stabbed by an inmate about a year ago.
‘That’s one of those places if you’re an inmate, you want to go into that unit because everything is quiet,’ Rojas said.
On July 9, 2023, Nassar was attacked in his cell by fellow inmate Shane McMillan, who used a makeshift weapon to stab him away from any cameras.
He was stabbed at least 10 times – twice in the neck, twice in the back and six times in the chest, suffering a collapsed lung, as an official said he was ‘lucky to be alive.’
The attack was deemed an ‘unwitnessed’ event because there are no cameras inside the prison cell, according to an insider. Only common areas and corridors are monitored by video.
McMillan is serving time for assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011, according to court records.
Officers responded to Nassar’s cell and performed what officials said were life-saving measures. He was taken to a hospital, where he remained in stable condition.
Cell doors on most federal prison units are typically open during the day, letting prisoners move around freely within the facility.
More than 150 gymnasts were abused by Nassar during his 30-year career. He admitted to sexually assaulting the athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics training camp (pictured)
McMillan is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2046, according to a Bureau of Prisons inmate database and court records, though that could change if he is charged and convicted of attacking Nassar.
Recently, LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne appeared to describe the camp, Karolyi’s Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, where Nassar abused the team’s athletes, as an ‘asylum’ in a TikTok video.
Dunne was a member of the junior national team that trained at the Texas camp under the USA Gymnastics program.
The collegiate gymnast, who boasts eight million followers on TikTok, used the platform to hop on the trend of Taylor Swift’s song, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?, and shared a series of photos of the Karolyis’ camp.
The trend, which has been circulating on the platform since Swift released her latest album, uses the lyric, ‘You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.’
Dunne has previously touched upon the USA Gymnastics training camp and the scandals that occurred at the ranch.
‘I would leave my family for a week every year to go to the USA training camp, which obviously had terrible scandals and that whole environment was not so good,’ Dunne said in an interview on the Full Send Podcast last year.
‘I was on the USA national team there. I decided when I was 16… USA gymnastics fell apart while I was in that program and I was like, “I’m just going to be happy and keep my full ride to LSU”.’
More than 150 gymnasts were abused by Nassar during his 30-year career.
Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting the athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics.
The doctor also admitted to possessing child pornography, and more than 100 women sought over $1billion from the federal government for the FBI’s failure to stop him.
On July 9, 2023, Nassar was attacked in his cell by fellow inmate Shane McMillan, who used a makeshift weapon to stab him away from any cameras
Recently, LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne appeared to describe the camp, Karolyi’s Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, where Nassar abused the team’s athletes, as an ‘asylum’ in a TikTok video
Dunne was a member of the junior national team that trained at the Texas camp under the USA Gymnastics program. (pictured: Dunne poses with a trophy after winning the national championship the Women’s National Gymnastics Championship in April 2024)
He was sentenced in federal court in 2017 to 60 years in prison on charges of possessing child sex abuse material. The following year, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years and up to 125 years, respectively, in two separate Michigan courts for molesting female gymnasts under his care.
In April, the US Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on victims before his arrest.
When combined with other settlements, $1billion now has been set aside by various organizations to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of treatment for sports injuries.
Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018, revealing in a powerful tweet that she was one of Nassar’s victims.
‘It took me a long time to write that, probably a couple of days, because every time I would go to write, I would start balling, and I couldn’t get through it,’ she said.
Biles also noted that she was heartbroken over having to continue to train at the ranch, the former USA Gymnastics national training center where she and her teammates were abused by the disgraced doctor.
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