Staffer who removed medical records from Karolyi ranch no longer works at USA Gymnastics

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A USA Gymnastics staff member who removed medical records from the Karolyi ranch at the direction of a former CEO is no longer with the organization.

It is not clear whether Amy White was fired or left voluntarily, and USA Gymnastics refused to elaborate. White had been the national teams manager for the acro program.

“We can confirm that Amy White is no longer with USA Gymnastics,” the governing body said in a statement Friday night. “As is our policy, we cannot comment further on personnel issues.”

Steve Penny ordered White to remove the records after he learned the Texas Rangers were investigating allegations that Larry Nassar had abused gymnasts at the Karolyi ranch, which is about 45 minutes north of Houston. It’s not clear when White removed the records, or what happened to them after she brought them back to Indianapolis.

More than 350 girls and young women, including Olympic champions Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas, have said they were abused by Nassar, often under the guise of medical treatment. The longtime USA Gymnastics and Michigan State physician is serving an effective life sentence after being convicted of federal child pornography and state sexual assault charges.

“Where those documents went from there, I don’t know,” Kerry Perry, who replaced Penny as CEO, told a Senate committee in July 2018. “I was also told that there was not a sort of logging in, if you will, of those documents in the organization, but those documents were given to then-CEO Steve Penny.

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“To my knowledge, they do not exist in our custody.”

A Walker County (Texas) grand jury indicted Penny on Sept. 28, 2018, on a count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. No record of the case was found in the district clerk’s online system Friday night, and the office was closed.