DOJ negotiating settlement with Larry Nassar victims who filed $1 billion lawsuit: source

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The Department of Justice is in settlement negotiations with the victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, a source familiar with the discussion told Fox News Digital.

A group of 90 women, including Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, sued the FBI and DOJ in June for failing to properly investigate complaints against Nassar. The disgraced doctor is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison on child pornography charges and has also been sentenced to 175 years in Michigan state prison for seven counts of sexually abusing gymnasts.

Fox has reached out to the FBI and to attorneys for the plaintiffs regarding the potential settlement.

"FBI officials, who possessed this knowledge and were in a position to end Nassar’s predation, were grossly derelict in their duties resulting in Nassar sexually assaulting approximately 100 young women and children between July 28, 2015, and September 12, 2016, and conspired with the highest-ranking officials within the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA Gymnastics, Inc. to conceal this known sexual abuse from foreseeable victims," a claim from five of the former gymnasts said.

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Olympic Gymnasts Testify On FBI Failures To Investigate Abuse. ((JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images  |   Saul Loeb/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images))

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The disgraced doctor is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison on child pornography charges and has also been sentenced to 175 years in Michigan