Top 10 things you need to know about the Larry Nassar scandal

Larry Nassar at his January sentencing hearing in Ingham County, Michigan

#4 - Birds of a feather flock together (continued)

Once The Indianapolis Star published Denhollander's story, Strampel e-mailed Michigan State executive vice president for academic affairs June Youatt, and he stated the following, according to the Washington Post.

“I expect that this will be all over the paper tomorrow...Cherry on the Cake of my day!!!”

However, things did not end up going Strampel's way, as he fired Nassar later that month against his own will and even admitted this in a meeting with a group of students the following month. Here is what he had to say during that meeting, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“This just goes to show that none of you learned the most basic lesson in medicine, medicine 101, that you should have learned in your first week: don’t trust your patients. Patients lie to get doctors in trouble. And we’re seeing that right now in the news with this Nassar stuff. I don’t think any of these women were actually assaulted by Larry, but Larry didn’t learn that lesson and didn’t have a chaperone in the room, so now they see an opening and they can take advantage of him. As soon as I found out I had to fire his a**. I didn’t want to, but what am I supposed to do?”

Strampel protected, defended and enabled Nassar. Is it really surprising that he, too, has been arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, official misconduct, and willful neglect of duty? It is not surprising whatsoever.