Twenty pages’ worth of alleged financial improprieties—committed by the Commanders, implicating owner Daniel Snyder and compiled by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee—were released to the press Tuesday en route to their intended destination, the Federal Trade Commission. There, Snyder may find himself under investigation.
As first reported by The Washington Post, a longtime Commanders employee claims that under direction from his superiors, he would lap funds from NFL-related revenue into some other bucket, like a Kenny Chesney concert or a Notre Dame football game at Washington’s stadium, so the organization wouldn’t have to share said revenue with the league. The employee is also claiming the team withheld $5 million in refundable season-ticket deposits from fans.
A Commanders spokesman replied to Sports Illustrated’s request for comment Tuesday to say that the organization has nothing new to add outside of the team’s denial of said crimes at the end of March. At the time, the Commanders “categorically denied any suggestion of financial impropriety of any kind at any time.”
