There isn’t any plan to vote on Washington Commanders proprietor Dan Snyder’s standing at subsequent week’s homeowners conferences in New York, in response to three folks with information of the agenda.
The folks spoke to The Associated Press on situation of anonymity Thursday as a result of the discussions are non-public.
Snyder’s possession of the staff has been broadly debated for years amid a number of scandals and investigations into office conduct in Washington. It turned a warmer subject Thursday amid an ESPN report detailing Snyder’s efforts to affect different homeowners and the league workplace to keep up management of the staff.
ESPN reported, citing nameless sources, Snyder has employed non-public investigators and advised folks he has sufficient info to show fellow homeowners and Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The Commanders are denying the contents of the report. In an announcement despatched to the AP, a staff spokesperson known as it “categorically untrue” and “clearly part of a well-funded, two-year campaign to coerce the sale of the team, which will continue to be unsuccessful.”
Holland & Knight, one of many legislation companies representing Snyder, didn’t instantly reply to a message looking for a response to the report.
Snyder has owned the staff since 1999. He and the group are at the moment the topic of ongoing investigations by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform and former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who’s conducting a brand new evaluation on behalf of the NFL.
They come on the heels of the league’s preliminary unbiased investigation by lawyer Beth Wilkinson’s agency, which discovered Washington’s office tradition to be poisonous. Snyder and the staff have been fined $10 million, and the league mentioned he turned day-to-day operations over to spouse Tanya, however no written report of the findings was launched.
The lack of a written report prompted Congress to research, and officers invited Snyder and Goodell to testify. Goodell appeared at a public listening to in June. Snyder testified in a personal deposition for greater than 10 hours in July, the transcript of which has nonetheless but to be launched.
A spokesperson for the committee didn’t instantly reply to a message looking for an replace on the investigation.
The day earlier than Goodell testified, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform launched a 29-page memo about its investigation, saying Snyder tried to discredit these accusing him and different membership executives of misconduct and tried to affect Wilkinson’s investigation.
“The Committee’s investigation also sheds light on the extent of Mr. Snyder’s role in creating and fostering the Commanders’ toxic workplace,” the memo mentioned. “This new evidence suggests that Mr. Snyder’s efforts to influence the Wilkinson Investigation may have been intended to conceal or distract from his own role in this troubling conduct.”
According to the congressional memo, Snyder “endeavored to dissuade his accusers from cooperating with the Wilkinson investigation by sending private investigators to their homes or offering them hush money.”
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AP National Writer Howard Fendrich and AP Pro Football Writer Schuyler Dixon contributed.
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