“New Michigan State trustee will review some 6,000 Nassar records the college has refused to release” Lansing State Journal 12/13/19

EAST LANSING — Newly appointed Michigan State University Trustee Renee Knake said Friday she will comb through thousands of documents related to the investigation of Larry Nassar that the college has refused to release. 

This comes after months of outcry and calls to the Board of Trustees to waive attorney-client privilege on some 6,000 documents related to MSU's own investigation into how the university handled complaints against former sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar, many of which came before he was charged in 2016. Nassar abused hundreds of women under the guise of medical treatment.

Her comments came after survivors of Nassar’s abuse led a renewed call Friday morning for MSU to cooperate with a state investigation and release the documents. 

Knake, an attorney and ethics professor who was sworn in this week and attended her first board meeting Friday, said she asked to look at the documents herself. She was appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier this month.

Read the full Lansing State Journal article here.