New York Daily News

$500M for Nassar sins

- Terence Cullen

MICHIGAN STATE University reached a $500 million settlement Wednesday with hundreds of victims who sued the school after being sexually assaulted by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

The agreement is with 332 girls and women across the world who said officials at the East Lansing school disregarde­d complaints about Nassar’s misdeeds for decades.

“We’re pleased with the outcome, but the fight’s not over,” Vince Finaldi, one attorney for the survivors, told the Daily News.

The victims agreed to receive $425 million from Michigan State. A third-party official — likely a retired judge — will decide how much each victim receives.

Michigan State will earmark the remaining $75 million for future victims who come forward.

Nassar, 54, is serving a 60-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to child pornograph­y charges last year. The former osteopathi­c physician was separately slapped this year with a 40- to 125-year prison sentence after copping to 10 counts of sexual assault on girls and women he was supposed to treat.

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