The Washington Post has released their story on Dan Snyder, and it is damning. The headline reads “From dream job to nightmare.” Basically it sums up more than a dozen women’s allegations of verbal abuse and harassment by former team employees.
Dan Snyder would not interview with the Post for the piece. The team released a statement and said that they had hired attorney Beth Wilkson and her firm to conduct and independent review of the allegations.
The allegations detailed by the Washington Post span from 2006 through 2019. Notably no female employees had accused Snyder himself of misconduct in the workplace.
Washington #Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has hired a law firm to review the team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct, per the AP
The @WashingtonPost is reportedly preparing a story about the team that is expected to highlight the culture over the years pic.twitter.com/svlmPwmVXk
— Gabriel Schray (@schrayguy) July 16, 2020
The story still details allegations of women saying he displayed poor conduct and acted in an unprofessional manner towards is staff. The report did detail allegations against two employees who were fired over the weekend.
Allegations also landed on longtime play-by-play broadcaster Larry Michael. Michael was with the franchise for 16 years and retired suddenly prior to the story breaking today.
Speculation as to what the report would cover was off the charts. A series of tweets from reporters in the area indicated the news would come. Shortly after it was announced that the Washington football team team would no longer be known as the Redskins, the tweets began to hint of the story the world is waiting for.
"Disturbing, toxic, bombshell, sad" all thrown out regarding the former Washington #Redskins
"We don’t want to speculate but we are hearing that the Washington Post is going to release a report involving a shocking sex scandal" said ABC 7 https://t.co/Josmic5uzI
— Gabriel Schray (@schrayguy) July 16, 2020
John Gonzalez of ABC Washington tweeted that the team’s name change will be “old news” after a “bombshell report” is dropped. It all started Sunday night and it has continued since. “A real busy week,” said JP Finlay of NBC on Twitter. “And it’s not all going to be about the name and it’s not all going to be pretty,” he continued.
“What’s coming is disappointing and sad,” said Julie Donaldson in response to one Twitter user. The user had replied to a tweet she had made previously regarding Kelvin Harmon. Clearly the story was all that it was cracked up to be by these reporters.
Literally zero proof beyond the tweets in this article, but allegedly big news is to come out of Washington and the NFL today#HTTR #News #NFL #NFLTwitter #Redskins #Sports #SportsBiz #Washington https://t.co/tAnxyPsbAE
— Gabriel Schray (@schrayguy) July 16, 2020
The series of ominous tweets led to “Dan Snyder” trending on Twitter all morning leading up to the release of the story. We’ll keep an eye on any developments and pass them on to you.
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