Lawyers representing the Washington Commanders despatched a scathing letter to the House Oversight and Reform Committee expressing displeasure about its ongoing office misconduct investigation.
The congressional committee’s eight-month investigation discovered Commanders owner Dan Snyder performed a vital function in fostering a poisonous paintings surroundings and pointed to proof that advised he impeded the NFL’s unbiased probe into the ones allegations.
The nine-page letter aggressively fires again on the probe and was once addressed to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. The letter characterised the investigation as a “politically inspired hatchet job.”
The letter is also a last-ditch effort through Snyder to shift blame. Commanders’ felony council Holland & Knight wrote the investigation has been unfair and is an try to break Snyder’s popularity.
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Team co-owner Dan Snyder speaks right through the announcement of the Washington Football Team’s identify alternate to the Washington Commanders at FedEx Field Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md.
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“The investigation of the Washington Commanders has not been fair, thorough, or bipartisan, and it certainly hasn’t sought the truth. From the beginning, the Committee set out with a singular purpose — to destroy Dan Snyder and his family and attempt, with deception, innuendo, and half-truths, to drive him from the National Football League,” former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., a spouse at Holland & Knight, wrote in the letter.
That declare is in direct war with the NFL’s findings from 2021.
Davis additionally famous that Snyder denied the allegations made through a former group cheerleader who accused Snyder of sexually harassing her right through a work-related tournament in 2004.
Earlier this 12 months, the NFL introduced its 2nd unbiased probe of the group this 12 months after allegations had been introduced to a House Oversight and Reform Committee roundtable dialogue.
Congress started investigating the group in October 2021 when allegations of sexual harassment and office misconduct arose after then-Raiders head trainer Jon Gruden stepped down following the leak of emails with then-Commanders group President Bruce Allen.
Allen was once fired in December 2019 after 10 years with the franchise he served in more than a few govt roles.
Team co-owners Dan and Tanya Snyder pose for a photograph with former group individuals right through the announcement of the Washington Football Team’s identify alternate to the Washington Commanders at FedEx Field Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md.
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Snyder refused to testify at a listening to ahead of the U.S. House Committee in June as phase of the investigation. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell did be offering his testimony ahead of the committee.
Goodell condemned the office tradition in Washington however clarified that adjustments had been carried out after the NFL’s investigation. Goodell argued the adjustments impacted no longer simplest Washington however all of the the league.
The commissioner additionally wired the league held Snyder responsible, together with its review of an “unprecedented” $10 million wonderful at the group.
Following Goodell’s testimony, Snyder did testify ahead of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight for greater than 10 hours. However, the deposition was once carried out nearly and in non-public.
It will have to come as no marvel that NFL officers declined to remark at the letter.
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The strongly-worded letter and the looming conclustion to the congressional probe are taking place as different householders and high-ranking NFL executives weigh whether or not Snyder will have to proceed to personal a franchise.
It is unclear if there’s a pending vote on Snyder’s long run as an owner. Snyder additionally reportedly confronted sexual attack allegations in 2009, and the group paid a lady $1.6 million to settle her claims.
FedEx Field ahead of a recreation between the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Football Team Nov. 29, 2021, in Landover, Md.
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The $1.6 million agreement had in the past been reported, however the main points of the lady’s allegations weren’t disclosed.
The girl agreed no longer to sue the group or publicly reveal her allegations as phase of the agreement.
According to the letter, Snyder denied the lady’s allegations, and a group investigation accused her of making up the claims in an try to extort him.
Snyder, his representatives and the group have denied all allegations of monetary improprieties and office misconduct towards them.
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Snyder has owned the Washington, D.C.-based NFL franchise since 1999. He has quickly ceded day-to-day operations of the franchise to spouse Tanya.