Two U.S. senators on Friday accused former U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun of lying to Congress about his response to sexual abuse complaints against former Olympic gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar, and referred him to the Department of Justice for potential criminal investigation.
In written statements submitted to a Senate Commerce subcommittee investigating Nassar's abuses in June, Blackmun claimed that in 2015 - after learning that USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny planned to report Nassar to law enforcement for suspicion of sexual assault - he discussed the matter with USOC employees who had backgrounds in sexual abuse cases to determine how the USOC should respond.