Washington Commanders proprietor Dan Snyder exploring potential sale of workforce

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Washington Commanders proprietor Dan Snyder, who has been accused of fostering a “poisonous office” within the NFL franchise, is contemplating a sale of the workforce.

By way of a workforce assertion on Wednesday, Snyder and his spouse, Tanya, introduced that they employed Financial institution of America Securities “to contemplate potential transactions.”

The transfer comes months after a Home Oversight Committee investigating the Commanders proprietor accused him of fostering a “poisonous office” and conducting “a shadow investigation to focus on his accusers, pin the blame on others, and affect the NFL’s personal inside evaluate.”

An inside investigation by lawyer Beth Wilkinson final yr resulted within the NFL fining the Commanders $10 million and Snyder handing management of the franchise’s every day operations to his spouse. Snyder has denied the accusations.

The Commanders Wednesday assertion reads: “Dan and Tanya Snyder and the Washington Commanders introduced in the present day that they've employed BofA Securities to contemplate potential transactions. The Snyders stay dedicated to the workforce, all of its staff and its numerous followers to placing one of the best product on the sphere and persevering with the work to set the gold commonplace for workplaces within the NFL.”

Attorneys Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, who symbolize greater than 40 former staff accusing Snyder of office improprieties, in an announcement referred to as the potential sale “a great improvement for the workforce, its former and present staff, and its many followers.”

“We should see how this unfolds, however this might clearly be an enormous step in the direction of therapeutic and closure for the various courageous ladies and men who got here ahead,” the attorneys mentioned.

Snyder final month denied allegations he employed personal investigators to look into his NFL counterparts, in addition to league Commissioner Roger Goodell.

The denial got here in response to an ESPN report that cited a number of unnamed house owners and league and workforce sources and mentioned the Commanders proprietor “instructed his regulation companies to rent personal investigators to look into different house owners – and Goodell.”

In a letter despatched to NFL house owners, Snyder mentioned the allegation was “patently false and meant to erode the belief and goodwill between house owners that I take fairly significantly.”

ESPN has alleged that present and former workforce executives mentioned Snyder “remains to be way more concerned operating the membership than most notice,” including that he lobbied to accumulate quarterback Carson Wentz from the Indianapolis Colts, whereas the sources questioned if workforce president Jason Wright, the primary Black man in NFL historical past to carry that title, “has true authority to repair the workforce.”

Goodell testified earlier than the congressional panel in June and mentioned the Commanders’ tradition was “not solely unprofessional, however poisonous for a lot too lengthy.”

However the commissioner maintained that the Commanders’ office has modified for the higher and that Snyder “confronted unprecedented self-discipline,” together with the effective.

Goodell mentioned Snyder had not attended league or committee conferences previously yr, and famous the Commanders put in place “a completely new, extremely expert and various administration workforce” and “revamped” their cheerleading program and management with a coed dance workforce.