Mary Jo White, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been hired by the National Football League to investigate an allegation that Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder sexually harassed a team employee more than a decade ago.
White will detail her findings in a written report, which will be released to the public since the allegation was made in a public forum.
McCarthy said that Commissioner Roger Goodell will determine any appropriate action against the team's owner, who was fined $10 million after a previous investigation into widespread sexual harassment and mistreatment of women by high-ranking team employees. The day-to-day operations of the franchise were temporarilyceded to his wife.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has been pressing the league to give them documents from the investigation. The investigation was kept under wraps to protect the anonymity of team employees who spoke to the attorney.
During a committee roundtable earlier this month, a former Washington employee told Congress that she was groped at a team dinner and pushed toward his limousine by him. In the 2000s, he worked for the team as a cheerleader and marketing manager. The allegations were called "outright lies" by Snyder.
The league stepped in and said it would oversee the probe after the team announced it had hired investigators to look into the allegations. At the Super Bowl news conference, he said a team couldn't investigate itself. He said that the owners of the league had the power to remove another owner from the league, but it was not clear if that power would be used to remove the owner of the team that was involved in a scandal.
White was the SEC chair under President Barack Obama. She is a partner in a New York based law firm.
White conducted an investigation into allegations against Jerry Richardson.
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