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Michigan State University’s former president Lou Anna Simon was hit with felony charges on Tuesday for lying to police during the Larry Nassar investigation.

The longtime MSU employee allegedly told authorities back in May that she knew of a sports medicine doctor being investigated for sexual abuse in 2014, but failed to reveal it was Nassar.

Eaton County prosecutors say she was well aware of his involvement, yet proceeded to “knowingly and willfully” make statements to police that she knew were “false or misleading.”

Simon at one point claimed that she didn’t even know the “nature of the complaint” against Nassar, according to charging documents.

But prosecutors say this was a lie, as well.

Simon was charged with two felony counts and two misdemeanors of lying to police on Tuesday. She faces up to four years behind bars if convicted — and is now the fourth MSU employee to be hit with charges related to the Nassar case.

Simon, who became president in 2005, spent four decades in East Lansing working for MSU before stepping down on Jan. 24 — the very same day the disgraced doctor was sentenced.

Nassar is scheduled to spend the next 40 to 175 years in prison for the sexual abuse of nine female athletes, but he’s been accused by hundreds of young women. He was recently indicted on a tampering with evidence charge in Texas, which could tack on even more time to his sentence.

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