Attorneys for greater than 40 former Washington Commanders cheerleaders despatched a forceful letter demanding ‘sexualized and salacious images’ of the ex-employees are faraway from congressional data.
The letter, addressed to Republican Home Committee on Oversight and Reform rating member James Comer (Kentucky), follows the GOP’s launch of partially-explicit photographs of the cheerleaders in a December 7 memorandum.
It served as an rebuke in anticipation of the Democrat-led investigation into Dan Snyder and the Washington franchise.
Within the 209-page report, faces and a few physique elements of the cheerleaders have been blacked out. Although attorneys Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, who characterize the previous staff, defined their shoppers have been ‘humiliated and incensed by the GOP’s reckless dissemination of those images.’
Initially, the images have been a part of lewd emails despatched by Washington’s departed GM, Bruce Allen to its ex-coach Jon Gruden, alongside others.
It was confirmed to ESPN by a committee Republican aide that the aforementioned photographs wouldn’t, and haven’t, been within the Congressional report.
Daniel Snyder made deceptive statements to congress when he testified as a part of the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform’s investigation into sexual harassment and hostile office allegations towards the NFL’s Washington Commanders, in keeping with a wide-ranging report launched Thursday
The aide additionally revealed in a press release – by way of the outlet – varied steps have been undertaken to make sure the ladies have been adequately protected.
‘Previous to circulating the interior memo, Committee workers took steps to make sure all delicate photographs involving cheerleaders have been redacted and their identities stored confidential.’
Banks and Katz’s letter to Comer, despatched earlier on Tuesday, argues the GOP members have been making an attempt to realize greater than stability and transparency by means of the inclusion of the pictures, with their shoppers left feeling as if Republican Committee members have ‘chosen to embarrass them publicly for coming ahead.’
Attorneys for ex-Washington cheerleaders, Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, despatched a fiercely-worded letter to Home of Committee on Oversight and Reform Rating Members, James Comer (R)
‘There was merely no reliable purpose for GOP members to have accomplished this, and it has induced our shoppers further and pointless ache,’ the letter from Banks learn.
‘Our shoppers imagine that releasing these images was a determined effort to guard Mr. Snyder from the scathing findings contained within the Committee’s remaining report, at their expense.’
The GOP’s memorandum referred to as the Home and Oversight and Reform’s report into Snyder and his franchise’s office a ‘sham investigation’ and an ‘egregious waste of taxpayer-funded sources’, when it may have in any other case targeted on ‘the border disaster, rising inflation, skyrocketing vitality disaster, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID aid spending.’
The GOP launched a 209-page memorandum in anticipation of the Democrat-led report
Kentucky congressman, James Comer, confirmed investigations will stop into Dan Snyder as soon as the GOP takes over congress. The 118th Congress begins assembly on January 3, 2023
It additionally suggests the investigation was solely born out of a need to ‘drive Staff proprietor Dan Snyder to surrender the Staff’ and implies there’s ‘credence’ to the notion of a Democrat members wanting to assist set up Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the brand new proprietor.
‘It seems that the complete effort might have had as its objective the elimination of an unfavored proprietor and the set up of the proprietor of a left-leaning newspaper sympathetic to the Democratic occasion,’ the memorandum learn.
The Home Committee on Oversight and Reform’s damning assessment launched Thursday made headlines after diving into sexual harassment and hostile office allegations towards the workforce.
A ‘poisonous work tradition’ festered for greater than 20 years, in keeping with the Committee’s report, which claims the workforce ignored sexual misconduct by high-ranking males inside the group.
The Democrat-led Home Committee on Oversight and Reform report {accused} Snyder of stopping former staff from testifying to Wilkinson and the Home Committee
Snyder gave deceptive congressional testimony and interfered with the Home Oversight Committee’s investigation into sexual harassment and hostile office allegations towards the NFL workforce, in keeping with the wide-ranging report.
Snyder was immediately concerned within the misconduct, the Committee claims, saying he inappropriately touched a former worker at a dinner and as soon as requested a staff-produced video ‘of sexually suggestive footage of cheerleaders.’ Snyder beforehand denied the claims.
The 58-year-old billionaire allegedly interfered in NFL and Committee probes stemming from 2020 allegations of rampant sexual harassment by executives. Particularly, Snyder is {accused} of providing hush cash to witnesses, intimidating others with the assistance of personal investigators, ‘blocking the manufacturing of paperwork,’ and refusing to launch former staff from non-disclosure agreements.
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones was crucial of the Democrat-led findings, labeling the report ‘silly.’
With the GOP set to take over congress early subsequent 12 months, any investigations into the franchise will stop, as confirmed by Comer in a short assertion after the Republicans clinched a slender majority within the Home for the 118th Congress, which begins assembly January 3.
