LANSING, Mich.—Ex-Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon was charged on Nov. 20 with lying to police during an investigation of the handling of serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar—the third current or former campus official other than Nassar to face criminal charges in the scandal.
Simon, who stepped down under pressure in January, spoke with state police investigators on May 1. She is accused of making two false and misleading statements—that she was unaware of the nature of a sexual misconduct complaint that sparked the school’s 2014 Title IX probe of Nassar, and that she only knew a sports medicine doctor, not Nassar himself, was under investigation at that time.
