Daniel Snyder pledged support for the NFL's investigation. His actions tell a different story.

Source: Washington Post

Daniel Snyder pledged support for the NFL’s investigation. His actions tell a different story.

Washington’s owner took former employees to court, deployed private investigators and was accused of trying to ‘silence’ a key accuser

By Will Hobson and Liz Clarke
December 14, 2021 at 1:57 p.m. EST | Updated December 14, 2021 at 2:55 p.m. EST

In July 2020, just a few days after prominent D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson began investigating allegations of widespread sexual harassment in the Washington Football Team workplace, she learned of a decade-old allegation of sexual misconduct against team owner Daniel Snyder.

Snyder had for years privately denied the woman’s claims. But the existence of an allegation against him, which had been kept secret by a confidential $1.6 million settlement, had the potential to rock a franchise already reeling from scandal. A few weeks later, Wilkinson sought to interview the former team employee who had made the accusation, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Then Snyder and his team stepped in.

Despite the owner’s public pledge to cooperate “with all aspects of the investigation,” his attorneys attempted to prevent Wilkinson from speaking to Snyder’s accuser, according to a letter the woman’s attorney wrote to Snyder’s lawyers that was filed in federal court.

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