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Stephen D. Penny Jr. (born 1964) is an American businessman and sports administrator. He was president and CEO of USA Gymnastics (USAG) from 2005 until 2017, and is a key figure in the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal .
Apr 26, 2022 · Charges of evidence tampering have been dismissed against former USA Gymnastics president and CEO Steve Penny, according to court documents filed last week in Walker County, Texas.
Jun 24, 2020 · While he was president of USA Gymnastics, Steve Penny allegedly tried to hide that Larry Nassar was sexually assaulting athletes.
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Oct 18, 2018 · Steve Penny, the former president and chief executive of U.S.A. Gymnastics, was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of evidence tampering in a Texas investigation into sexual abuse by Lawrence...
- USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar
- USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny
- Nassar Survivor Rachael Denhollander
- Prosecutor Angela Povilaitis
- Nassar Survivor Maggie Nichols
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Larry Nassar, 57, is serving a 60-year sentence for federal child pornography charges at a high-security U.S. penitentiary in Sumterville, Florida. He also faces 40-175 years on state sexual abuse convictions in Michigan, a term that prompted Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to tell Nassar at his sentencing in 2018 "I just signed your death warrant." Nassa...
USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny was forced to resign in 2017, but left with a $1 million severance package. The resignation came in the midst of the Nassar scandal after it was revealed Penny waited nearly five weeks in 2015 before notifying the FBI of sexual abuse allegations against Nassar. In 2018, Penny was arrested and taken into custody in Gat...
Rachael Denhollander is 36 now. She is two decades past the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Nassar — and five years past the day she became the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar of sexual assault. Since, she has become known as a symbol of strength and hope to survivors everywhere. Denhollander chose to take what happened to her and f...
Assistant Michigan attorney general Angela Povilaitis headed the prosecution of Larry Nassar. But she didn't fully grasp the sheer scope of his abuse until after Nassar pleaded guilty and was sentenced. That personal revelation came a few months later inside the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. It was at a rehearsal for the 2018 ESPY awards, where...
Maggie Nichols, the first gymnast to report Nassar to USA Gymnastics and the title character in the 2020 Netflix documentary Athlete A, retired from elite gymnastics following the 2016 Olympic trials. Despite overcoming a knee injury to post the sixth best overall score in the trials, she was not named as one of the five team members or three alter...
Steve Penny resigned as USA Gymnastics CEO in 2017 amid the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal, but he is still facing a criminal charge of tampering with evidence. He also was banned from the organization and owns a home in Fishers, Indiana.
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Oct 18, 2018 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him, alleging he tampered with evidence in the sexual assault investigation of now-imprisoned gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Oct 18, 2018 · Steve Penny, who resigned last year as president and chief executive of USA Gymnastics, was arrested by a fugitive task force in Tennessee on Wednesday night, almost three weeks after he was...
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