Michigan Republican John Engler Offered Larry Nassar Abuse Victim a $250,000 Payoff
One of the more than 140 alleged survivors of Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse claimed on Friday that the school’s interim president, John Engler, offered her a payoff in late March.
“Right now, if I wrote you a check for $250,000, would you take it?” Kaylee Lorincz said Engler, a former governor of Michigan, asked her when she ran into him at the MSU offices. “When I explained that it’s not about the money for me, and that I just want to help, he said, ‘Well, give me a number.’ ” Lorincz has said that Nassar sexually assaulted her by putting his fingers in her vagina under the guise of medical treatment soon after she turned 13.
Lorincz made her statement at an MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, where her revelation about the alleged settlement offer was met with gasps and indignant yells from the audience. Lorincz said that her lawyer was not present for the conversation with Engler but that her mother was, in addition to Carol Viventi, MSU’s special counsel to the president. Engler allegedly told Lorincz that Rachael Denhollander, Nassar’s first public accuser, had “given him a number”; Denhollander denies ever meeting with Engler.
Lorincz claims that when she repeated that she wasn’t meeting with Engler to ask for money, Viventi replied, “Well, you’re in civil litigation, aren’t you? That’s what a civil case is about: money.”
An MSU spokeswoman told Lorincz’s mother on Friday that she believed Engler wasn’t offering Lorincz a settlement, but merely entertaining a “philosophical discussion” about how much money would be warranted for a victim in the case. The spokeswoman told the Lansing State Journal that a settlement “was not on the table” at the time.
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