USA Gymnastics is asking a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to approve $88,000 in holiday bonuses to its employees, including national teams manager Amy White, according to documents obtained by the Southern California News Group.

White, who allegedly acting on the orders of then USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny removed from the Karolyi Ranch documents relevant to law enforcement investigations of former U.S. Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar, is one of 40 employees USA Gymnastics wants to pay annual bonuses to.

USA Gymnastics, facing dozens of civil suits filed by more than 220 survivors of Nassar’s sexual abuse as well as decertification by the U.S. Olympic Committee, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Southern District of Indiana on Dec. 5.

This week it filed a supplement motion with the court seeking approval of the bonus plan. In the filing, Catherine Steege, an attorney for USA Gymnastics, wrote that since “at least 2008” the organization has “paid a December bonus to its employees.”

“For 2018, (USA Gymnastics) proposes to remain consistent with the 2017 bonus structure and to pay an aggregate of $88,000 in bonuses,” Steege wrote.

With the motion Steege filed a list of the employees eligible for bonuses and the proposed amount they would receive.

Twelve employees would receive $5,000 in bonuses if the plan is approved. The remaining 28 employees, including White, would receive $1,000 bonuses.

John Manly, an attorney representing dozens of former gymnasts who allege they were abused by Nassar, said the USA Gymnastics bonus proposal was “like rubbing acid in the wounds of the survivors.”

“There are people on that list who actively participated in misleading the survivors, their families, the public and the media about Larry Nassar,” Manly said. “Especially Amy White who asserted her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify in the Raisman case.

“I can’t for the life of me understand why an organization would attempt to do this after what they’ve been involved in.”

USA Gymnastics did not respond to a request for comment.

Rhonda Faehn, former USA Gymnastics vice president for the women’s program, said in a sworn deposition that White in March confided to her that Penny called her and told her to remove records from the Karolyi Ranch and transport them to USA Gymnastics headquarters in Indianapolis in November 2016.

White told Faehn that after returning to the headquarters “she gave them to Steve Penny,” Faehn said referring to the medical records.

Penny ordered the documents removed after Texas Rangers investigators seeking medical records and other potential evidence related to their investigation of Nassar were turned away from the Karolyi Ranch by employees, according to court documents. Rangers investigators were told they could not search the ranch without a subpoena.

Penny was arrested in October after a Texas grand jury indicted him on felony evidence tampering charges. The indictment alleges Penny ordered the removal of documents from the Karolyi Ranch related to Nassar’s activities.

“The indictment further alleges that the removal of the documents was done for the purpose of impairing the ongoing investigation by destroying or hiding the documents,” according to the Walker County, Texas District Attorney’s Office.

Penny was forced to resign under pressure from the USOC in March 2017. USA Gymnastics paid Penny $420,000 in severance in 2017, according to financial records.

White asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination at least 130 times in a November 13 deposition in Olympic champion Aly Raisman’s federal lawsuit against USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Nassar and several other top USA Gymnastics officials and coaches.

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“I’m not sure how Amy White still works there, let alone gets a bonus,” Manly said.

USA Gymnastics asked the bankruptcy court last month to approve an agreement with a consulting firm in which USA Gymnastics would pay the company as much as $3,000 a day and another $30,000 for a strategic and executive planning agreement with an attorney who once worked at the same Colorado law firm where former U.S. Olympic chief executive Scott Blackmun was once a partner.