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Dan Snyder allegedly committed Bank Fraud with NFL assisting in Coverup
Daniel Snyder's final breakup from his longtime minority partners in Washington's NFL franchise began with a footnote in an April 2020 financial report. The note revealed a $55 million credit line the team had taken out 16 months earlier without the knowledge and required approval of Snyder's minority partners -- the three billionaires who owned 40% of the franchise, according to documents obtained by ESPN. The secret $55 million loan has become a primary focus of federal prosecutors in Virginia who are investigating allegations of financial misconduct by Snyder and the Washington Commanders, multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of the inquiry told ESPN. A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas for a cache of documents related to the team's finances, including the loan. Prosecutors acquired the partners' NFL arbitration petition and other supporting materials, including emails and letters between team executives and bank lawyers, documents show. The criminal inquiry is being led by a team of FBI and IRS agents, sources said. During a confidential arbitration, the former partners demanded that the NFL investigate the origin of Snyder's loan. But neither NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, whose signature granted league approval for the team to take on the new debt, nor the NFL arbitrator investigated the partners' allegation of financial wrongdoing, according to hundreds of pages of confidential NFL arbitration documents obtained by ESPN and more than a dozen interviews. Loans and lines of credit obtained without the approval of Washington's board of directors violate the team's shareholder agreement, according to the documents. The documents also show Bank of America officials asked team executives repeatedly for proof that the board had approved the loan. But the team executives never turned over a copy of the board approval before the loan closed, and one team lawyer later acknowledged in a letter that the board approval doesn't exist, documents show. Four days after the partners pressed the NFL arbitrator to seek proof that the loan was legally obtained, the documents show, the NFL moved to shut down arbitration proceedings. The partners begrudgingly agreed to mediation, led by Goodell, sources familiar with the matter told ESPN. The mediation resulted in the partners selling their shares, and it silenced their complaints against Snyder, the sources said. The NFL never conducted the partners' requested investigation of the loan, and the league levied no sanctions against Snyder related to the allegations of financial misconduct. One source with firsthand knowledge of the proceedings told ESPN the partners believed Goodell and NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash sided with Snyder over them. "Three billionaires -- not a few whistleblowers -- alleged to the NFL arbitrator that their partner had possibly committed bank fraud," the source said. "This is jail time type of fraud. The NFL owes them as much of a fair shake as it owes Snyder. And the league had no interest in finding out what happened. They buried it and didn't investigate it and covered it up." |
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It’s not like this is in isolation. This whole comedy exposes how NFL owners can get away with a cartoonish amount of shit as long as they have money. Snyder has had a gazillion offenses where each one on it's own should have costed him the team.
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Nothing will happen. People with loads of money get out of everything. People in power get away with everything because they know the dirt on people. We have seen this shit for 100 years.
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Much much longer than that. Wealth and corruption go all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia.
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Uhh, might be a bit different this go around considering there's already federal prosecutors involved and the ****ed over parties are billionaires themselves.
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Good points but the other owners are not going and make a push for anything but a large fine to get money. Federal prosecutors are all paid for by other billionaires in one way or another. All of them have nasty secrets they don't want exposed. All of this is will end with Dan being out as an owner and that's pretty much it. Dan will not get locked up.
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As long as Goodell goes to prison, I'm good with it.
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![]() Robert Sarver (Phoenix Suns) ![]() Donald Sterling (Los Angeles Clippers) ![]() Daniel Snyder (Washington Redskins/Commanders) ![]() Beyond owning professional sports franchises and being sketchy AF, I wonder if these 3 sheisters share anything else in common? Last edited by GeorgeZimZam; 02-28-2023 at 10:49 PM.. |
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EB’s new job just got even worse.
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Article should call him "former Redskins owner" instead.
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Daniel Snyder is Russell Wilson's armour from constant grilling
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This sounds like how rich people fight.
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