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Report: Dept. of Justice Investigating Sexual Abuse in US Olympic Organizations

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched "multiple wide-ranging criminal investigations into sexual abuse in U.S. Olympic sports organizations and into potential financial and business misconduct throughout the U.S. Olympic system," according to the Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Davis O'Brien.

Units dedicated to money laundering and child exploitations have already sent grand-jury subpoenas to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and U.S. Center for SafeSport.

In addition, Justice Department prosecutors are looking into how FBI offices acted upon receiving allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016.