While a legal battle over the ownership of the Washington Football Team takes place in the courts, and the team is a win away from sealing their first playoff appearance since 2015 on the field, more troublesome allegations are coming to light for team owner Daniel Snyder, as two new reports of sexual misconduct have been reported.
According to a new report from The Washington Post, the Washington Football Team paid a female former employee $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement in 2009 after the woman accused Snyder of sexual misconduct.
The misconduct was said to have taken place on Snyder’s private plane on a flight returning from the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, the report said, and the accuser reportedly was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
According to the Post, Snyder and his team chose to settle the misconduct case for fear of further legal action, but “in the agreement, neither Snyder nor the team acknowledged any wrongdoing.”
Though the woman had been terminated for cause, she and the team agreed that her personnel file would be changed to show that she voluntarily resigned. The team also provided the woman with a letter of recommendation, signed by Mitch Gershman, then the team’s chief operating officer, which described her as “well-respected by her colleagues here at The Washington Redskins and around the NFL” and said she “will be an asset to another organization.”
This news comes after another article dropped over the weekend that detailed Snyder’s legal battle over the ownership of the team, where he is fighting three men who own a combined 40% of the team – Robert Rothman, Dwight Schar, and Fred Smith.
In a release of documents that were uncovered in that report, a text message from Baltimore banker John Moag during the sales process read in part:
“If you continue your game, you know what I know and what I have never spoken about. And you know it has nothing to do about the media s*** … it’s the more serious s***.
“If you want to get to a clean conclusion, let me know. If you want a s*** show, we are on for that too.”
While Washington is finally starting to find some success on the field with Ron Rivera as their new coach, it appears that stuff is starting to hit the fan in the front office, and Snyder continues to be in the middle of it all.
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