Disgraced US team gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been receiving 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 their 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 is 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 he has been paying 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 federal prison cell in Sumter County, Florida, with Mexican gang members.
The cell door remained closed and the windows covered, which only happens when inmates use drugs or have sex, according to Pinson.
“Larry Nassar has decided…sucking shit is a better way…to stay alive,” Pinson told the New York Post.
The inmate referred to Nassar as a “scared little church mouse” who only left his cell to visit the chapel, where the two discussed his paid protection.
‘I wished I 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.
He said Nassar allegedly paid gang members “a couple hundred dollars a month” to protect him inside. Pinson added that members initially informed him about the deal.
The prisoner said she also saw a phone her cellmate had that was often used by gangsters to talk business and arrange drug transactions.
Pinson believes 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.
“Having Larry Nassar suck your dick in prison is a twisted way to pay him back for what he did to those women,” Pinson said.
Pinson believes 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 victims at Senate jury hearing in 2021)
Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018 and revealed 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 hundred dollars,” Pinson said.
Meanwhile, José Rojas, former president of Coleman’s correctional officers union, disagreed with Pinson’s claims.
Rojas said Nassar was held in the “dropout” unit, which is considered safer than the general population, where he was stabbed by an inmate about a year ago.
“That’s one of those places if you’re an inmate and you want to get 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 an improvised weapon to stab him away from 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, while an official said he was “lucky to be alive.”
The attack was considered an “unwitnessed” event because there are no cameras inside the prison cell, according to a source. Only common areas and hallways 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 went to Nassar’s cell and took what officials said were life-saving measures. He was taken to a hospital, where he remained in stable condition.
Cell doors in most federal prison units are typically open during the day, allowing inmates to move freely within the facilities.
Nassar abused more than 150 gymnasts during his 30-year career. He admitted to sexually assaulting female athletes while he worked at Michigan State University and the USA Gymnastics training camp (pictured).
McMillan is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2046, according to a Bureau of Prisons database of inmate and court records, although 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 college gymnast, who has eight million followers on TikTok, used the platform to follow the trend of Taylor Swift’s song, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?, and shared a series of photos from Karolyi’s 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 asylum where I was raised.”
Dunne previously addressed the USA Gymnastics training camp and the scandals that occurred at the ranch.
“I left my family for a week every year to go to the United States training camp, which obviously had terrible scandals and that whole atmosphere wasn’t that great,” Dunne said in an interview on the Full Send Podcast last year.
“I was there on the United States national team. I decided when I was 16… USA Gymnastics fell apart while I was in that program and I thought, “I’m going to be happy and keep my entire career at LSU.”
Nassar abused more than 150 gymnasts during his 30-year career.
Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting female athletes while he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics.
The doctor also admitted possessing child pornography, and more than 100 women sought more than $1 billion 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 an improvised weapon to stab him away from 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 women’s national gymnastics championship in April 2024)
He was sentenced in federal court in 2017 to 60 years in prison for possession of child sexual 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 sexually abusing gymnasts under 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, a critical time frame. which allowed the sports doctor to continue taking advantage of the victims. before his arrest.
Combined with other settlements, several organizations have set aside $1 billion to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of receiving treatment for sports injuries.
Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018 and revealed 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 started writing, I started having problems and I couldn’t get over it,” he said.
Biles also noted that she was heartbroken to have to continue training at the ranch, the former USA Gymnastics national training center where she and her teammates were abused by the disgraced doctor.