Instead, Beth Wilkinson, the lead outside investigator, briefed the N.F.L. not release a thorough report, it did not even ask for one. The team’s human resources department was ordered to be monitored for the next two years.īut the investigation’s findings were not made public, and nothing was said about allegations about Snyder’s behavior toward female employees. The Washington Football Team was ordered to pay a $10 million fine and reimburse the cost of the investigation, and Snyder said he would cede day-to-day control of the team to a new co-chief executive, his wife, Tanya Snyder. finally resolved the yearlong investigation. Three months later, in July, that was exactly what happened. It was a sign that the outside investigation, while not yet complete, would largely exonerate Snyder personally. tentatively approved an agreement in which Snyder would be allowed to take on more debt than the league traditionally allows in order to buy out his three partners. Throughout the end of 2020 and into 2021, both the investigation into Washington’s workplace culture and the N.F.L.’s mediation of the ownership dispute proceeded more quietly. Selling minority stakes in football teams valued at billions of dollars in full can be quite difficult, and if Snyder were forced to sell his stake in the team too, the limited partners could presumably sell more easily, and at a higher price. In effect, Snyder accused the men who had co-owned the team with him since 2003 of leaking negative information to The Washington Post and the Indian media company to attempt to force him to sell his stake in the team, too. In lawsuit filings, Snyder also accused a representative trying to help the limited partners sell their shares of wrongly telling a potential investor that Snyder would soon be forced to sell because of negative information spilling out into public. Snyder soon sued an obscure online media company in India, accusing it of taking money in exchange for publishing defamatory rumors about him. Their dispute did not stay private for long. appointed an arbitrator to resolve the matter privately.
Attempts by the three limited partners to sell their shares devolved into acrimony with Snyder, and the N.F.L. Smith, Dwight Schar and Robert Rothman, who collectively owned 40 percent of the franchise.
Parallel to and often intersecting with the workplace misconduct investigation was a bitter internecine quarrel between Snyder and three of the team’s limited partners, Frederick W.
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