NFL probe of harassment at Washington Football Team should be made public, activists say
The investigation, overseen by D.C. lawyer Beth Wilkinson, began in July and is nearing completion, Goodell said at a information convention Thursday in Tampa. The league has not stated whether or not it’s going to launch Wilkinson’s findings. A league spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
“There cannot be accountability without transparency. Many dozens of women courageously came forward, at great risk to their careers, livelihood and well-being, to expose the practices that you correctly labeled as abhorrent,” learn the letter, additionally signed by Futures Without Violence. “… If the NFL fails to release the report, these women will feel — correctly, we believe — that the risk they took was in vain and that Mr. Snyder succeeded in silencing them.”
The Washington Football Team didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark despatched to a spokeswoman and the workforce’s public relations agency.
Wilkinson initially reported to Snyder and the workforce, however the NFL took on oversight of her investigation after an Aug. 26 report in The Post detailed allegations raised by one other 25 feminine former workers, together with a cheerleader who accused Snyder of humiliating her.
Snyder denied the lady’s allegation and denied any information of two lewd movies, produced by the workforce’s manufacturing employees in 2008 and 2010, that featured moments of partially nude cheerleaders captured on digicam throughout swimsuit calendar shoots.
Also Friday, a federal choose in Virginia denied The Post’s movement to intervene in a lawsuit over a confidential settlement settlement that seems to contain an allegation of sexual harassment raised against Snyder by a female former employee. The lawsuit was filed in November by former workforce basic counsel David Donovan in opposition to Wilkinson, in an obvious effort to stop Wilkinson from sharing details about the settlement. Donovan dismissed the case in November, and his attorneys, attorneys for Wilkinson and attorneys for the workforce have been in conversations for weeks over what paperwork and particulars regarding the case will be made public, in accordance with court docket filings.
Lawyers for Donovan and the workforce didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
On Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan P. Davis dominated The Post couldn’t intervene within the case.
“There are cases where some records should be sealed or redacted,” Davis stated.
Liz Clarke, Mark Maske and Beth Reinhard contributed to this report.
