D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine introduced Tuesday his workplace goes after Washington Commanders proprietor Daniel Snyder, the franchise itself, the National Football League, and league commissioner Roger Goodell, submitting civil costs towards the quartet.
Racine’s workplace alleges they colluded to deceive Washington D.C. residents in regards to the NFL’s investigation into the workforce’s poisonous office tradition in addition to allegations of sexual assault introduced towards folks related to the franchise.
The lawsuit towards Snyder and the others cites the D.C.’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act, which provides the legal professional common broad authority to carry people or an organization accountable for the deceptive of clients within the nation’s capital. The act is used right here to say the quartet prevented D.C. residents from studying the reality in regards to the investigation into the Commanders’ office atmosphere. Last week, Snyder introduced a doable sale of the workforce with a gaggle led by Jeff Bezos, Jay-Z, Matthew McConaughey, and others allegedly combining forces with the curiosity in shopping for the franchise.
“For years the team and its owner have caused very real and very serious harm and then lied about it to dodge accountability and to continue to rake in profits,” Racine stated throughout a Thursday press convention saying the costs. “So far they seem to have gotten away with it, but that stops today.
“We will issue subpoenas,’’ Racine said. “We will seek testimony under oath.’’
Commanders counsel John Brownlee and Stuart Nash said in a statement,“Over two years ago, Dan and Tanya Snyder acknowledged that an unacceptable workplace culture had existed within their organization for several years and they have apologized many times for allowing that to happen. We agree with AG Racine on one thing: the public needs to know the truth. Although the lawsuit repeats a lot of innuendo, half-truths and lies, we welcome this opportunity to defend the organization — for the first time — in a court of law and to establish, once and for all, what is fact and what is fiction.”
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And here’s what NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said about the lawsuit, “We reject the legally unsound and factually baseless allegations made today by the D.C. Attorney General against the NFL and Commissioner Goodell and will vigorously defend against those claims.”
Snyder by himself is accused of covering up years of harassment and that the NFL allegedly allowed him to do so. There are financial penalties of up to $5,000 per incident of all parties allegedly lying to D.C. residents since July 2020, when the Washington Post article detailing the organization’s toxic workplace was released. Racine said the full penalty could be in the millions, having worked on a similar case in the past where the total in damages was $10 million.
The lawsuit also seeks a court order that would force the NFL into releasing the findings from the league’s investigation into Washington’s office tradition. The NFL didn’t publicly launch the findings of the investigation into the Commanders, which led to Congress getting concerned with a House Oversight Committee evaluation and Goodell testifying earlier than the panel in June.