Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing featured Roger Goodell taking a few bullets for Dan Snyder, who did not comply with a testimony request. The committee then indicated a Snyder subpoena was forthcoming. The longtime Washington owner cited an out-of-country trip as the reason he would not testify along with Goodell.
The embattled Commanders owner may be taking it a step further this week. Snyder is resisting the subpoena, according to a committee spokesperson. The committee asked Snyder attorney Karen Patton Seymour if she could accept service of the subpoena Monday, according to the Washington Post’s Mark Maske, Liz Clarke and Nicki Jhabvala, but Seymour is now out of the country. As such, no resolution on this matter has emerged. Goodell said last week he has no authority to force Snyder to testify.
“Mr. Snyder has so far refused to accept service of the Committee’s subpoena,” a committee spokesperson said in a statement Monday (via The Athletic’s Ben Standig, on Twitter). “While the Committee has been, and remains, willing to consider reasonable accommodations requested by witnesses, we will not tolerate attempts to evade service of a duly authorized subpoena or seek special treatment not afforded to other witnesses who testified in this matter.”
For his part, Snyder said (through a spokesperson) he has not refused to appear for a deposition, via Jhabvala (on Twitter). Per Snyder, the committee has offered only one date (June 30) for testimony. He said his attorney will be out of the country on that date. Snyder took a similar path to passing on the committee’s initial request.
The committee has been investigating Snyder and his franchise since last fall, with that probe beginning shortly after the NFL’s investigation did not produce a written report. The then-Washington Football Team was fined $10MM, with Snyder ceding day-to-day control of the franchise. Snyder quickly pushed back on having done so, and his involvement has been in question since. Potential Snyder evasion tactics should not be expected to work, per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, who expects the owner to testify before the committee.
Snyder has run into recent trouble on other fronts as well — from the discovery of a seven-figure settlement paid to a woman who accused him of sexual assault and sexual harassment to allegations of financial impropriety to his conducting a shadow investigation of ex-employees and journalists amid the NFL’s probe — but he has thus far avoided other NFL owners seriously considering his removal.
Someone commented that the name should be the Washington Commodes. Spot on.
Just another GUTLESS move by Godell. He is more than willing to suspend a player before their day in court but don’t mess with the owners. The report isn’t happening because probably 3/4 of the owners will be in trouble.
What a stain
I just started watching Rich & Shameless on HBO .. I foresee a Dan Snyder episode for season 2
Snyder knows he has no way to testify without either…
A) incriminating himself
B) pleading the 5th
C) perjuring himself
Who’a worse; Snyder or Congress? It’s a tough choice.
It’s a disgrace that Congress is wasting taxpayer money on this. The NBA, NHL, MLB and NASCAR are all allowed to police themselves so why target the NFL? None of those organizations are by any means perfect but this is smelling more and more like a witch hunt for political gain.
(1) By that standard, it’s perfectly OK for an NFL club to pimp its cheerleaders and retaliate against whistleblowers. Not to mention letting its stadium go to rot.
(2) Other sports have NOTHING TO DO with this situation!
Law enforcement can’t deal with this?
They are in this situation, the nfl policed itself into not writing a report about a guy who paid a substantial amount of hush money, that’s what happens, the nfl won’t police it’s owners, so some bigger enterprise has too, Snyder is pure scum and deserves to rot in jail
@DarkSide / Yes, the courts are where individuals with grievances against Snyder should be looking for a resolution. Congress will blow a lot of hot air, submit a meaningless report of recommendations then move on to another area where they can waste taxpayer dollars.
Ummm might want to check you history. You don’t remember Barry Bonds, sSammy Sosa, Mark McGuire. Rafael Palmiero all sitting in front of congress committing perjury by saying the never used steroids? In Sosas case he just acted like he did speak English.
He should just schedule something up on a Friday and let them waste the day doing their usual worthless haranguing. Just answer “I don’t recall” or “I have people that manage that activity for the team” to every question.
Do the “Dave Chapelle I plead the 5th” skit.
I didn’t know I couldn’t do that!
Huge Inflation, Soaring Gas Prices, Party Tensions cusping on a potential civil war, Roe v Wade, War in Russia, shortages starting. homelessness growing, truck drivers quitting
why would congress prioritize working on those things, no we need to spend money and time to figure out how to get this guy to testify.
cuz they’re the same people who created those problems in first place
You’re forgetful of hearings about an attempted coup on an elected US government.
It was a few thousand red necks throwing a temper tantrum. I’m not a fan of Trump either, but you gotta build a bridge and get over it.
Trump haters are worse than Trump himself
Says a lemming of the Trump cult.
No, it wasn’t a few thousand rednecks. It was a President refusing to transfer power for the first time in US history and staging a coup.
Smell the coffee or whatever smell you choose.
definitely a shady election
Complete nonsense. DJT found out he was behind in the polls so he started claiming that the election was rigged MONTHS BEFORE Election Day. The Big Lie morphed into the Big Grift which morphed into the Big Coup. People need to go to prison.
Shady as in Trump trying to throw the election….
“War in Russia” …clearly you’ve been paying very close attention to world events
I guess i could say land formerly owned by Ukraine? Ukraine was going to cede most of that land to Russia if it would have ended the fight right there before they escalated it but Russia wanted more and have pushed further into the Ukraine and now taking the more. It also sounds like UN or was just the US has only really threatened to send troops if they push into further nations outside the Ukraine border (ie basically giving ukraine to russia to keep the peace making it the war in russia).
Yes we sent money as humanitarian aid but that is more PR which in this economy is probably pissing off more people than making them happy with people barely living paycheck to paycheck. Barely surviving is probably one of the bigger reasons all the people you see switching parites. Atleast that is my take on it.
Flyby…..come back to reality and the world of coherence. Maybe avoid doing speech to text when you’ve had a few. So here goes, reality checklist for flyby:
Ukraine has not ceded all of it’s territory
A military does not push into a nation as a nation refers to the people not the actual land.
Try punctuation and sentences as you’re no James Joyce
Skip the edibles and spirits before posting comments
If you follow these 4 little steps you may be on the way to seeming more coherent.
Here are some quotes for my back up if you need them.
“NATO has so far refused to send soldiers to Ukraine to avoid an escalation of the conflict with Russia, fearing that doing so would trigger a new world war. But it has nonetheless sent equipment to Ukrainian forces while also reinforcing its presence across all eastern Europe.
The latest data shows that Poland hosts the highest number of NATO troops, at 10,500. There, NATO’s battlegroup is led by the United States.”
per CNBC
I never said they ceded all of their country but at this point they are losing the war and pretty much no one is sending help other than food and supplies to help refugees. they are slowly ceding all of ukraine at this point. I said they were originally ceding parts of their country to make Russia happy and avoid war. So unless something big changes, its a matter of when and not if.
“Capturing Mariupol is key, because it would allow Russian forces in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Russia invaded and annexed in 2014, to link up with those in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow has refocused its efforts.”
“Ukraine declares end to battle for Mariupol, ceding control of key port city to Russia
The evacuation of Ukrainian troops from the Azovstal steel plant represents an important but costly victory for Moscow.”
if you want to see how far they have pushed into the Ukraine with pretty much no opposition from NATO / UN / US check out these maps from the bbc in the link below
link to bbc.com
but i guess i could go attack the person route like you instead and say …. stop with the pints paddy and have a rest and when the hangover is gone come back with a clear head (probably something new for you) … then look at the news and come back with maybe some sources … once done …. we can then have a discussion …. but i don’t think you are capable of it
personally i like a good discussion present your facts and if they are plausible maybe it could convince me otherwise but my guess is you wont and dont have one.
He must think he’s a Republican member of the former guy’s administration
TDS?
No, TDS aka intelligent open-minded critical thinking.
lmao ya blame Trump for everything = advanced critical thinking
…..of a monkey
I’m a conservative. I’ve always voted Republican. And I say Trump was an embarrassment to our country.
you must be a Fed then..
Bush really?
Time to send in the FBI to raid the joint.
I didn’t realize the depth of the TDS amongst Football fans, but then again these are mostly Washington area people so it’s expected. How’s Joe and the Camel working out for you?
TDS is real brother
guy hasn’t been in office in over 2 years and is still the ultimate source of copium for many
Oversight committee….. bahahahaha. Rather go to a circus and watch elephants.
ODS was a hundred times worse than tds.
Your grifter leader would (& should) be in prison were it not for obstruction, lies, co-conspirators, and propaganda over the past six-plus years. What’s the penalty again for being a traitor to this country?
The real circus is watching people like yourself who live in the bubble twist themselves into pretzels to defend the orange sociopath and his sheeple cult.