A new report from the Washington Post states that Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder tried to silence a witness who had accused him of sexual harassment.
In the wake of a bombshell report in the Post in July 2020 that described a culture of workplace harassment in the team, the league fined the team $10 million, but Commissioner Roger Goodell claims that owner Danskin and the team have been properly punished.
The investigation did not reveal any new information about the Washington Football Team. The biggest news so far has been the racist, sexist and homophobic language used by former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden that led to his resignation. There has been a suggestion that the public was offered a sacrifice to focus attention on Washington. Dozens of former Washington employees urged the NFL to release the full findings of its investigation after Gruden resigned.
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The Congressional committee requested all documents related to the investigation.
The Washington team hired a lawyer to investigate the allegations of a toxic workplace. The new report from WaPo paints a different picture.
While he publicly expressed shock over allegations raised in The Post story that prompted the investigation, his lawyers filed petitions in federal court to identify former employees who had spoken to The Post, an effort one federal judge suggested was intended to burden and harass former employees.
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Brendan Sullivan, the woman's lawyer, accused the team's lawyers of offering his client more money if she didn't speak to anyone about her allegations against the team. The phone calls to Sullivan were described in court as an attempt to silence the accuser. Sullivan and Wilkinson did not comment.
The accuser in the case was kept under wraps for years with a $1.6 million settlement, but the Post says that the accuser was tried to keep from speaking to the other side. The woman's lawyer said that the woman was prevented from talking to the man in a sealed letter. The letter was described by people with knowledge of it, but the Post did not see it.
According to the Post, former employees and potential witnesses say that they were intimidated by the hired investigators.
The attempts to block her call into question the decision of Goodell to not make public any communications from the lawyers of the accuser.
It has not escaped notice that the emails spared Snyder any embarrassment while damaging the reputation of Bruce Allen, the team president who was fired in 2019.
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As the situation plays out, it appears that the team's owner, Danskin, has emerged with an even stronger hold on the team. Many of the women who came forward to participate in the investigation felt that the NFL's image was damaged.
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Rachel Engleson, a former team marketing director, said that it was sad that the NFL was not willing to do the right thing.
A second Washington Post story in August 2020 detailed lurid accusations of sexual harassment from 25 employees, including a cheerleader who claimed that she was asked to join his friend in a hotel room, and an explicit video showing cheerleaders in the nude. The accusations have been denied by Snyder.
