There were voyeurism allegations against Richard Dalrymple. It was 4:20
A league spokesman said on Friday that the league wouldn't be opening an investigation into the events surrounding the Dallas Cowboys and their cheerleaders who accused a team executive of voyeurism in their locker room.
The allegations of voyeurism against Richard Dalrymple, the Cowboys' long-time senior vice president for public relations and communications, are considered a club matter by the NFL.
McCarthy said the club handled the matter.
On Wednesday, the allegations involving Dalrymple were first reported. The cheerleaders accused Dalrymple of using his security key card to enter the back door of their locked dressing room during an event at AT&T Stadium. Several people with knowledge of the events and letters sent by attorneys for the cheerleaders to the team said that one of the women said she saw Dalrymple standing behind a partial wall with his phone in his hand as they changed their clothes.
In the second allegation, a Cowboys fan who was watching a livestream from the team's war room during the 2015 NFL draft swore in an affidavit that he saw Dalrymple take upskirt photos of Charlotte Jones Anderson, a team senior vice president. The cheerleaders, their spouses and Cowboys officials are barred from discussing either episode in the final document because of the alleged incident.
Dalrymple did not respond to interview requests. A team source said that he entered the cheerleaders locker room to use the bathroom and left immediately. Dalrymple issued a statement calling the allegations false.
A Cowboys representative this week said the team thoroughly investigated both allegations and found no wrongdoing by Dalrymple and no evidence that he took photos or video of the women. The team does not dispute that Dalrymple used his security key card to enter the cheerleaders locker room. According to a person familiar with the matter, Dalrymple was warned by the Cowboys in October of 2015. The team wouldn't give a copy of the warning or detail other information that would show precisely when Dalrymple entered and left the dressing room.
The news of the Cowboys allegations comes as members of Congress question the transparency of the league's inquiry into allegations of workplace sexual harassment against the Washington Commanders. Critics questioned why the league didn't release the report from the outside lawyer who was hired to investigate the Commanders. According to documents released by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the league may not be able to release the investigation findings without the permission of the Commanders owner.
The league will be in charge of a new investigation of sexual harassment allegations surrounding the Commanders, commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters in his news conference before the Super Bowl. The committee heard from a former marketing employee who accused the team of having a toxic workplace and sexual harassment.
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