The Washington Commanders organization and NFL covered up decades of sexual misconduct and the team’s owner Dan Snyder tried to interfere with investigations into allegations of a toxic workplace, according to a new scathing congressional report.
The Washington Commanders organization and NFL covered up decades of sexual misconduct and the team’s owner Dan Snyder tried to interfere with investigations into allegations of a toxic workplace, according to a scathing congressional report released Thursday.
Snyder"permitted and participated in this troubling conduct," said the report. It said he inappropriately touched a former employee at a dinner, had staffers produce a video “of sexually suggestive footage of cheerleaders,” and ordered that women who were auditioning to be cheerleaders walk on the field “while he and his friends gawked from his suite through binoculars.”Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.The Washington Commanders is up for a possible sale.
John Brownlee and Stuart Nash, counsel for the Washington Commanders, said the report is one-sided and doesn't reveal any new bombshells. The women said harassment “happened every single day that you were on-site” and “was a very constant thing” — and that attempts to report misconduct to leaders were ignored, the report said.Congressional investigators claim that Snyder interfered with the probe by intimidating witnesses and taking steps to ensure documents wouldn't be released.
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