In a scathing rebuke of USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s handling of sexual abuse cases, attorneys representing survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse asked a U.S. Bankruptcy judge on Tuesday to dismiss USA Gymnastics bid for Chapter 11 protection, according to a court filing obtained by the Southern California News Group.

USA Gymnastics, facing hundreds of lawsuits related to Nassar, the former U.S. Olympic and women’s national team physician, filed for under protection Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy for the Southern District of Indiana in December 2018.

That Chapter 11 filing prompted an automatic stay on all legal proceedings and litigation, including discovery, against USA Gymnastics.Should the case be dismissed civil suits filed by alleged survivors and others against USA Gymnastics and related proceedings could move forward.

“USAG/USOC, and its revolving door of executives since, have done everything in their collective power to conceal the truth from Nassar’s hundreds of survivors, the more than 100 survivors of abuse suffered at the hands of coaches over the past several decades, law enforcement authorities, and the American public,” James I. Stang, an attorney for a committee representing survivor wrote in the filing. “The coordinated strategy of USAG and the USOC was, and remains to be, to delay, deflect and deny them and non-Nassar survivors justice for the horrible crimes committed upon them as children. Sadly, USAG and the USOC have used this bankruptcy proceeding as yet another tool to inflict pain upon these sexual abuse survivors – both Nassar and non-Nassar survivors – and to deny justice to these girls and women who competed for this institution and their country. The Survivors’ Committee seeks, and indeed, implores this Court to dismiss this Case and grant related relief to appropriately effectuate the dismissal for the legal reasons cited herein. The Court should also grant the Motion because it has come time for some court or institution to give these women the right to finally have their cases heard before a jury. Enough is enough.”

The filing reveals that there has been no significant progress between attorneys for the survivors and USA Gymnastics lawyers for months.

In the filing, Stang also states, that “Based on my discussions with the respective lawyers for the Prepetition Lawsuit Sexual Abuse Claimants and other attorneys representing Sexual Abuse Claimants, I am informed and believe that nearly all Sexual Abuse Claimants would reject any nonconsensual plan proposed by USAG that included a broad release for the USOC.”

After the November 21, 2019 mediation session, Stang writes in the 54-page filing, “USAG’s counsel provided no substantive update to me or any other advisors to the Survivors’ Committee as to any potential global settlement among the key parties, other than informing me that USAG had been trying to resolve certain insurance coverage disputes.”

Stang also said “Based on my communications with USAG’s counsel, USAG apparently has not undertaken any material efforts and other actions to obtain and maintain important sponsorships for and in connection with the Summer Olympic Games.”

In a statement to SCNG, USA Gymnastics said the organization “is reviewing the motion. It disagrees with the statements made in the motion and remains committed to working towards a resolution with the survivors and is committed to athlete safety.”

Mark Jones, USOPC vice president for communications, said “We are absolutely committed to achieving justice for the survivor community as quickly as possible. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply untrue.”

An attorney for dozens of survivors including five Olympic gold medalists, accused USA Gymnastics of using bankruptcy proceedings to stall until after the Olympic Games later this summer, and along with the USOPC, continue to cover up a full account of the sexual abuse of young gymnasts by Nassar and others and the roles the organizations played in enabling and concealing that abuse.

“It’s been obvious to all of us that this has been used as a ruse to delay the survivor’s right to justice,” said attorney John Manly. “Justice delayed is justice denied. These survivors want to know who knew what and when and they deserve that. But USA Gymnastics and its handlers at the USOC have been using the bankruptcy proceedings to hide the truth, to hide documents, to protect the individuals responsible. The USOC and USAG want to delay, delay and delay until after the Olympics. They want to hide the truth until after the Olympics, stall it out. And these women, these bright women, Olympic champions and medalists, recreational gymnasts, will not stand for it.”

The survivors’ committee charges that the “The core of this bankruptcy proceeding has been the intent of USAG and the USOC to string both the Court and the Survivors’ Committee along, ingratiating them and the media with platitudes of change about athlete safety. However, these hollow promises of reform have been tools to buy USAG and the USOC time to delay and create a narrative that will keep their respective organizations free from scrutiny long enough for these organizations to indulge in their respective financial windfalls from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.”

A separate filing Tuesday by USA Gymnastics chief financial officer Bernadette M. Barron listed the organizations’s total assets and total liabilities and equity at $81, 805,026. The filing also listed $1.4 million in revenue for December, $2.6 million in expenses. USA Gymnastics had $641,341 in legal fees last month, according to the filing.

The filing takes particular aim at USA Gymnastics chief executive Li Li Leung, who last year became the organization’s third top executive since Steve Penny was forced out under pressure from the USOPC in March 2017. Leung was hired just weeks after USA Gymnastics filed for bankruptcy and receives $450,000 in annual salary and as much as $90,000 in annual bonuses, according to filings with the court.

“Grandiose statements that have been issued by USAG such as the January 8, 2020 tweet from current USAG President Li Li Lueng are merely intended to placate sponsors to continue their support, before investigative agencies, criminal prosecutions, and adversarial civil process will reveal the true depravity of the organizational cover-up of sexual abuse of athletes,” Stang writes.