Disgraced US gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar “pays gangsters with sexual favors for protection in prison”

Disgraced U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar received protection from gangsters in exchange for “sexual favors,” according to an inmate’s testimony.

Grace Pinson, a transgender inmate currently incarcerated in Allentown, Pennsylvania, told the New York Post that Nassar, who was sentenced to several hundred years in prison for abusing gymnasts and children, paid 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 for Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics.

He is currently serving a decades-long prison sentence 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, said Nassar was seen around June 2021 entering a cell at a federal prison in Sumter County, Florida, with members of Mexican gangs.

The cell door remained closed and the windows were covered, which Pinson said only happens when inmates are taking drugs or having sex.

“Larry Nassar has decided that sucking dick is the better way to stay alive,” Pinson told the New York Post.

The inmate described Nassar as a “frightened little church mouse” who only left her cell to attend chapel, where the two discussed his paid protection.

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“He wished he didn’t need those guys. In some ways, what they expected of him was worse than the thought of being stabbed and killed,” Pinson said.

She said Nassar allegedly paid the gang members “a couple hundred dollars a month” to protect him in prison. Pinson added that the gang members initially informed her about the deal.

The prisoner said she also saw her cellmate’s phone, which was often used by gangsters for business meetings and drug transactions.

Pinson is convinced that the gang members are forcing the molester to perform “sexual favors” in order to “humiliate and degrade” Nassar for what he did to the girls.

“Making Larry Nassar suck your cock in prison is a perverse way of getting back at him for what he did to those women,” Pinson said.

Nassar has since been transferred to a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He declined an interview with the New York Post, and Bureau of Prisons spokesman Scott Taylor declined to comment on Pinson’s allegations.

“You’re not going to risk your life for Larry Nassar for a few hundred dollars,” Pinson said.

Meanwhile, Jose Rojas, former president of the Coleman prison guards’ union, disagreed with Pinson’s claims.

Rojas said Nassar was being held in a “get-out unit,” which is considered more secure than general incarceration, where he was stabbed by an inmate about a year ago.

“It’s one of those places. When you’re an inmate, you want to go to the unit because everything is quiet there,” Rojas said.

On July 9, 2023, Nassar was attacked in his cell by fellow inmate Shane McMillan, who stabbed him with an improvised weapon 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. He suffered a collapsed lung and one official said he was “lucky to be alive.”

The attack was classified as an “unmonitored” event because there are no cameras in the prison cell, an insider said. Only common areas and hallways are monitored by video.

McMillan is serving a prison sentence for attacking a correctional officer at a federal prison in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate at the federal maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, in 2011, court records show.

Officers arrived at Nassar’s cell and performed life-saving measures. He was taken to a hospital where his condition remained stable.

In most federal prisons, cell doors are open during the day so inmates can move freely around the facility.

According to a Bureau of Prisons inmate database and court records, McMillan is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2046, but that could change if he is charged and convicted of the attack on Nassar.

Recently, LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne appeared to refer to the Karolyi’s Ranch camp in Huntsville, Texas, where Nassar abused the team’s athletes, as an “institution” in a TikTok video.

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Dunne was a member of the junior national team that trained at the camp in Texas as part of the USA Gymnastics program.

The college gymnast, who has eight million followers on TikTok, used the platform to jump on the trend of Taylor Swift’s song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” and shared a series of photos from the Karolyis’ training camp.

The trend, which has been circulating on the platform since Swift released her last album, uses the lyrics: “You wouldn’t last an hour in the institution where they raised me.”

Dunne has previously commented on USA Gymnastics’ training camp and the scandals at the ranch.

“I left my family for a week every year to go to the US training camp, where of course there were terrible scandals and the whole environment was not so good,” Dunne said in an interview on the Full Send podcast last year.

“I was on the U.S. national team there. I made the decision at 16… while I was in that program, U.S. gymnastics collapsed and I thought, ‘I’ll just be happy and keep my full scholarship to LSU.'”

More than 150 gymnasts were abused by Nassar during his 30-year career.

Nassar admitted to sexually harassing the athletes while working at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics.

The doctor also admitted to being in possession of child pornography, and more than 100 women demanded over a billion dollars from the government because the FBI failed to stop him.

He was sentenced to 60 years in prison in federal court in 2017 for possessing child sexual abuse materials. The following year, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 and up to 125 years in prison by two different Michigan courts for sexually assaulting gymnasts in his care.

In April, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling sexual assault allegations against Nassar in 2015 and 2016. During that critical period, the sports doctor managed to continue harassing victims even before his arrest.

Along with other settlements, various organizations have now pledged $1 billion to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of treating 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 this, probably a few days, because every time I wanted to start writing I would start crying and I couldn’t get through it,” she said.

Biles also mentioned that it broke her heart to have to continue training at the Ranch, USA Gymnastics’ former national training center, where she and her teammates were abused by the disgraced doctor.