Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of investigator charged with sex crimes The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking if the center knew he had been accused of newer crimes when working there last year.
Though most of the charges against Krasley stemmed from incidents that allegedly occurred before SafeSport hired him, Grassley’s letter also included information about the ex-investigator’s largely overlooked arrest for an altercation with a real estate appraiser who said Krasley caused $2,500 in damage to his car in June, while Krasley was still working for the center.
Not until The Associated Press revealed in December that Krasley had left policing in 2021 to join SafeSport, which oversees sex-abuse allegations across America’s Olympic sports, was the connection involving the officer, the center and his termination from his job as an investigator there made public.
Grassley asked whether SafeSport had received any indication before November that Mr. Krasley was under investigation for alleged offenses in June, when he was still working at the center.
A bipartisan bill proposed in the House during last year’s session attached changes to the center’s operations to a prospective funding increase but didn’t touch on the hiring process that has thrown the center into crisis in the wake of the Krasley arrests.
