The drama this offseason with the Arizona Cardinals continues. They face arbitration in claims made by former vice president of player personnel Terry McDonough. McDonough amended his complaint to include defamation and invasion of privacy, according to ESPN’s Tisha Thompson.
When McDonough filed his original complaint requesting arbitration, accusing the team of misconduct and harrassment, the team responded harshly with claims of their own of his misconduct and even evidence of domestic violence.
That response is now part of the complaint.
The Cardinals and Bidwill “publicly disclosed private facts about McDonough” and made “false and defamatory statements about McDonough” that the team knew “to be false” as part of an “effort to intimidate and harass him and his family members,” according to the complaint obtained by ESPN.
The league appointed former NBA attorney Jeffrey Mishkin to hear the case.
The team responded with a statement stating it was aware of the amended complaint and is confident with the stance already taken, but the Cardinals would not comment further.
This is going to drag on for a while.
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