it is very doubtful this stuff got to him, or, if it did, that he did anything to enable it.
From reading the article, until the child porn, he had legit medical professionals prepared to say this was a real treatment. Obviously, he was hiding some of it from them, but that is what predators do.
Some of it should have been stopped. There were clearly adults who knew, but none of them really challenged any of it. Nassar manipulated the adults as much as he abused the girls.
As an outside attorney to a lot of companies, if people don't want you to know something, there is almost no way you are going to find it. USA gymnastics had a sexual assault policy, and a good one. JS helped write it; ironically, so did Nassar. It was not followed, but hard to blame JS for that. From the article many of these girls were lying about/hiding the abuse to/from their parents and coaches, some even to themselves. Do you really think JS randomly interviewing the girls to see how they were treated would have gotten an honest answer?
I do think more should have been done to make sure the policy was implemented and standard medical protocols followed. That likely would have stopped it. The outside attorney, if he got wind of the odd treatment methods could have forced it, but there were many more people more culpable as enablers than JS.
He shouldn't get a free pass though, and I do hope ND has asked him about it. I would be very surprised if they haven't. If he did know and participated in the doing nothing approach, he should be fired. We can argue whether just being there is enough to disqualify him as AD at ND. Based on this article and some of the other things that are posted, I don't think so. That said, you could want to hew to a higher standard. It might not be fair to JS, but higher standards are rarely fair to those who are effected by them.
For those wanting his resignation/firing, the question to ask is that if we were winning more football games would you be defending him from people demanding his firing. I recognize that my arguments are somewhat rationalizations and giving JS the benefit of the doubt. BUT, if the answer to that question is yes, you would be defending him, then you are not seeking to hold ND to a higher standard, you are just looking for an excuse to get rid of someone you don't like. For the record, I am not a big fan either.