Lewd 2012 emails between ex-Commanders GM Bruce Allen and Jon Gruden joked about nude photos

Further investigation into the toxic work culture at Washington Commanders revealed a series of emails between senior managers that shared explicit images.

By eric flack From WUSA in Washington, the GOP’s response to the House Oversight Committee report includes emails sent between former Washington general manager Bruce Allen and former NFL head coach Jon Gruden.

The images in the emails sent between multiple people included attachments that included photos of nude cheerleaders under the subject “Only for idiots.”

Two emails featured in the Republican response to the House Oversight Committee report

The GOP response to this could be part of a larger effort to move the narrative away from Snyder and closer to Allen in order to prevent a forced sale and prevent a specific person from buying the Commanders.

“While I have yet to read the 210-page response, it comes through the emails, nude photos, and published testimony of Snyder and former team exec Brian Lafemina. Republicans are arguing that Bruce Allen was the source of the toxicity, not Dan.” Snyder,’ flack ran.

And then this: Republicans allege that the Democratic-led investigation was an elaborate scheme for Dan Snyder to sell Commanders to Jeff Bezos. Hours after news of a possible future sale broke, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was reported to be interested in buying the equipment. (plus)

“Bezos also owns the Washington Post, whose negative coverage…has been a key driver of the investigation. It appears…the whole effort could have had the removal of the disadvantaged owner and the installation of the owner of a left-leaning newspaper sympathetic to the Democratic Party.”

Former team president Bruce Allen (right in 2018) also testified that Snyder discussed using private investigators to amass information on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in an effort to gain influence over the league while investigating himself. himself and the team. Additionally, Allen claimed that Snyder’s private investigators followed him. Snyder (left) has hired an investment bank to help him consider selling the NFL franchise.

The official report from the House Oversight Committee says that Snyder deliberately leaked these emails to support Republicans’ claim that he was not the source of the toxic culture.

“By June 2021, Mr. Snyder went a step further and identified for the NFL “specific inappropriate emails from Bruce Allen” to bolster claims that Mr. Allen was to blame for toxic workplace culture. “, the report reads.

Public reports indicate that while the NFL found Mr. Allen’s emails concerning, it determined they were “outside the scope of the original investigation into the Washington football team.” Approximately four months later, in October 2021, Mr. Allen learned that many of the “inappropriate” emails obtained by Mr. Snyder from his Commanders email account had been leaked to the Wall Street Journal.

House Oversight Committee says Snyder leaked emails to shed a bad light on Allen

“According to Mr. Allen, when he called NFL counselor Lisa Friel to complain, she indicated that the commanders were responsible for the leak, stating, “We didn’t do it at the league office. She left her side. “‘

In addition to the emails directed at Allen, the messages sent by Gruden led to him losing his job as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

At the time of the leak, Gruden’s emails revealed racist, sexist and homophobic content.

Publishing their findings before Republicans take office in Congress next month, Democrats on the committee also accused the 58-year-old billionaire or his staff of leaking racially derogatory emails from former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. (pictured), who was subsequently fired by that team. According to testimony from former Commanders team president Bruce Allen, the recipient of the emails, Snyder made the leak to “send a message” to Allen, one of Snyder’s perceived enemies.

Snyder was directly involved in the misconduct, the committee claims, saying he inappropriately touched a former employee at a dinner party and once requested a staff-produced video “of sexually suggestive images of cheerleaders.” Snyder previously denied the claims.

The 58-year-old billionaire allegedly interfered in NFL and Committee investigations stemming from 2020 allegations of rampant sexual harassment by executives.

Specifically, Snyder is accused of offering money to keep witnesses quiet, intimidating others with the help of private investigators, “blocking the production of documents” and refusing to release former employees from nondisclosure agreements.

Former Commanders employee Tiffani Johnston told the Congressional Oversight Committee that Snyder once groped her thigh during a team dinner and pushed her into his limo with his hand on the small of her back. Snyder has denied the accusation.

While the firm of prominent Washington DC attorney Beth Wilkinson handled the NFL investigation, Snyder also conducted his own ‘shadow investigation’, portraying him as the ‘victim of a smear campaign’.

The shadow investigation was conducted, in part, to “deflect responsibility for the team’s toxic work culture,” according to the congressional report.

And when he testified before the committee, according to the report, Snyder was evasive and deceptive, stating more than 100 times that he did not remember certain details.

“For example, although Mr. Snyder admitted to using private investigators, he testified that he ‘did not know’ who his investigators approached and did not ‘remember’ having conversations with his attorney about the people they were targeting,” it reads. in the report. .

Daniel Snyder made misleading statements before Congress when testifying as part of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s investigation into sexual harassment and workplace harassment allegations against the NFL’s Washington Commanders, according to a damning report and broad published on Thursday.