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Pay Attention Knuckleheads

 

 

Has your team support wained due to ownership or can you see past it?  

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  1. 1. Will you attend a game and support the team while Dan Snyder is the owner of the team, regardless of success?

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https://wjla.com/sports/washington-commanders/major-announcement-dc-attorney-general-karl-racine-thursday-press-conference-dan-snyder-bank-america-potential-transactions-espn-charges-nfl-roger-goodell-inquiries-congress-allegations-sexual-misconduct

 

'Major announcement' regarding Commanders expected Thursday: AG Racine

 

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WASHINGTON (7News) — A "major announcement" regarding the Washington Commanders is expected on Thursday, according to D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

 

Racine will hold a press conference at noon, his office said in a release. The Office of the Attorney General will also hold a follow-up press event for reporters for more context later that afternoon.

 

No further details were immediately available on the subject of the press conference.

 

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8 minutes ago, KDawg said:

With our luck this will launch an even larger investigation which determines that the Commanders will be stripped of all draft choices in the next five drafts.

A new owner facing the bad consequences from the wrongdoings of the previous, I hope not (in terms of draft picks at least)

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NEW YORK — The office of D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) has nearly completed its investigation of the Washington Commanders and their owner, Daniel Snyder, and is planning to take further action in the case, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

 
 

Racine and his team “are moving full steam ahead,” according to that person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, adding: “Dan Snyder, the Commanders, and the NFL will soon face accountability for their actions. ... Snyder will no longer be able to dodge subpoenas or avoid testifying or answering questions.”

 

Racine declined to comment through his office.

 

Attorney Lisa Banks, who represents more than 40 former Commanders employees, said Monday: “Many of my clients participated in this investigation, which appeared to be wide-ranging and thorough. We eagerly await next steps from the D.C. Attorney General — hopefully he will succeed where the NFL has failed in ensuring accountability for two decades of sexual misconduct.”

 

The development arrives as NFL team owners are scheduled to hold a meeting Tuesday in New York amid the ongoing controversy involving Snyder.

It is not clear what actions are being contemplated by Racine’s office, which includes more than 700 attorneys and staff members and is responsible for enforcing D.C. law through criminal and civil means.

 

“The team’s lawyers have met with counsel at the Attorney General’s office on multiple occasions, and no one from that office has ever indicated that the office is planning to take any action against the team or Dan Snyder,” a team spokesperson said in a statement Monday night. “The Commanders organization has cooperated fully with the investigation, including by producing over a hundred thousand documents, because it has nothing to hide. The anonymous leaks are unconscionable, and D.C. Attorney General Racine should confirm that the leaks didn’t come from any member of his office or anyone affiliated with his office.”

 

Racine’s office has been investigating Snyder and his franchise since the fall of 2021 following allegations of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct, according to the person familiar with the probe. The investigation also has dealt with the circumstances surrounding the NFL’s handling of the allegations against Snyder and the Commanders and more recently has included the team’s ticket sales practices, according to that person. Racine’s office has reviewed tens of thousands of documents produced by the Commanders and the NFL and has interviewed witnesses that include former cheerleaders and team executives, according to that person.

 

Racine became the District’s first elected attorney general in 2015; he announced last year that he would not seek a third term. With Racine’s endorsement, D.C. attorney Brian Schwalb won a three-way race in June for the Democratic nomination for the office.

 
 
 

The office first disclosed its investigation of the Commanders and Snyder in April, soon after allegations of financial impropriety by the Commanders and Snyder were detailed in a letter from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform to the Federal Trade Commission. That same day, Jason S. Miyares, Virginia’s Republican attorney general, told attorneys for the team and Snyder that his office would investigate the allegations of financial impropriety outlined by the committee’s letter. The team has denied committing any financial wrongdoing.

Snyder and the team also are being investigated separately by the congressional committee and the NFL. Tom Davis, an attorney for Snyder and a former chairman of the committee, wrote this month in a letter to Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), the committee’s chairwoman, that the panel’s Democratic-led investigation has been “a politically inspired hatchet job” designed to remove Snyder from the NFL.

The league’s second investigation of the Commanders, this one led by attorney Mary Jo White, was launched after Tiffani Johnston, a former cheerleader and marketing manager for the team, said at a congressional roundtable in February that Snyder harassed her at a team dinner, putting his hand on her thigh and pressing her toward his limo. Snyder denied the accusations, calling them “outright lies.”

 

In June, The Washington Post reported details of a former employee’s claim that Snyder sexually assaulted her during a flight on his private plane in April 2009. Later that year, the team agreed to pay the employee, whom it fired, $1.6 million in a confidential settlement. In a 2020 court filing, Snyder called the woman’s claims “meritless.”

No formal discussion of Snyder or the Commanders is on the agenda for Tuesday’s quarterly owners meeting, according to multiple people familiar with the agenda, and the owners are not expected to take any official action regarding Snyder with White’s investigation still pending. The committee also could issue a final report on its investigation in the coming weeks.

But the owners could have an impromptu discussion about Snyder during their privileged session at the end of Tuesday’s meeting, when other team executives are not present. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is likely to be questioned about the situation during the news conference that he typically holds at the conclusion of any league meeting.

 

Tanya Snyder, Daniel’s wife and the franchise’s co-CEO, and team president Jason Wright are expected to represent the Commanders at the meeting.

Multiple NFL owners told The Post last month that they believe serious consideration may be given to attempting to oust Snyder from the league’s ownership ranks, either by convincing him to sell the franchise or by voting to remove him. “He needs to sell,” one of those owners said. “Some of us need to go to him and tell him that he needs to sell.”

If Snyder could not be persuaded to do so willingly, NFL rules would require a vote of at least 24 of the 32 owners to force him to sell.

“I think there will be a movement,” the same owner said last month. “We need to get 24 votes.”

Any move toward taking such a vote could be months off. In the meantime, it is unclear what Snyder’s ownership status is. His attorneys said last week that Snyder is “no longer under any NFL restriction” related to his involvement in the day-to-day operations of the franchise.

 

But Goodell and the league consistently have said Snyder’s status has not changed since the July 2021 announcement that the team was being fined $10 million, based on the findings of the previous investigation of its workplace conducted by attorney Beth Wilkinson, and that Tanya Snyder would oversee the franchise’s daily operations for an unspecified period. NFL officials have said Goodell will discuss Snyder’s status with him once White’s investigation is complete.

The owners could reach a resolution Tuesday on their dispute over how much each team must pay toward the NFL’s $790 million settlement reached last year with St. Louis stemming from the Rams’ relocation to Los Angeles in 2016.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/17/dan-snyder-dc-attorney-general-investigation/

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13 minutes ago, BatteredFanSyndrome said:

Pardon my ignorance here, but aside from the team being called the Washington Commanders, what is the tie to DC? Headquarters in VA, plays in MD.

 

To be clear, I wouldn’t care if the Space Force took action against Dan.  Just curious of the ties that bind here.

 

I heard on the radio just now that if just one ticketholder bought tickets in DC and was subsequently screwed by Snyder, then there is merit for a case.

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51 minutes ago, Skinsinparadise said:

NEW YORK — The office of D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) has nearly completed its investigation of the Washington Commanders and their owner, Daniel Snyder, and is planning to take further action in the case, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

 
 

Racine and his team “are moving full steam ahead,” according to that person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, adding: “Dan Snyder, the Commanders, and the NFL will soon face accountability for their actions. ... Snyder will no longer be able to dodge subpoenas or avoid testifying or answering questions.”

 

 

“Dan Snyder, the Commanders, and the NFL will soon face accountability for their actions.... 

 

 I can only imagine how pissed off the other owners are right now that Dan has brought this much bad light / attention on the league. Lesser things they may have done league wide and swept under the rug may now be brought into the open.

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8 hours ago, Zim489 said:

Watching Snyder cry as he’s handcuffed would be the greatest day for the fan base in 30 years

 

 

Where’s your humanity?

 

I couldn’t in all honesty take any pleasure at all in seeing the man arrested, humiliated, and sent to the big house.

 

Not at all…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I’m praying to the football gods for is to one day watch Disheveled Danny get an appointment with old sparky to make up for all the pain he’s caused our fan base…

 

 

 

 

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Heh heh heh…

 

 

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I have no idea what Racine is going to announce today. But. This statement fits a well established pattern of Snyders team (same pattern we see with another high profile individual’s team of people) of trying to get ahead of a bad situation by muddying the waters of it. Why in hell are you talking about Robinson being shot - or bringing in the political talking point of out of control crime - or bringing up that his term is almost done?

 

Because when the facts and the law aren’t on your side - this is what you do.
 

like aforementioned other individual - there’s an existing pattern of denying things that not only turn out to be true, but always seem to turn out to be worse than we thought. 

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I like this if Ron would do it.  Some attack Ron and previous coaches, personnel people, etc for lacking "integrity" for not quitting.  but who in the right mind would voluntarily give up 10 million or whatever to make a point?  Plus the ultimate revenge isn't to quit -- that's a win for Dan in some respect because he saves the money.  Remember the stories in the past about how Dan-Vinny wanted Zorn to quit?   The revenge is to get fired and force Dan to pay the contract for years.  

 

 

 

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19 hours ago, BatteredFanSyndrome said:

Pardon my ignorance here, but aside from the team being called the Washington Commanders, what is the tie to DC? Headquarters in VA, plays in MD.

 

To be clear, I wouldn’t care if the Space Force took action against Dan.  Just curious of the ties that bind here.


They sell a lot of tickets to DC residents and potentially some of the sexual misconduct happened in DC or to DC residents. 

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