Ex-NFLPA boss Howell's strip club expenses sent to investigator - ESPN

Former NFL Players Association leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned after an outside investigator hired by the union received documents this week showing he charged the union for two visits to strip clubs, including a $738.82 car service that took him from the airport to one of the clubs.

The documents are union-approved expense reports and receipts, which ESPN began asking questions about hours before Howell abruptly resigned late Thursday night.

One receipt, obtained by ESPN, shows Howell was picked up in a sedan by a car service at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, at 10:26 p.m. The car's first stop was at a nearby Miami Gardens address.

Nearly eight hours later, at 6 the following morning, the car dropped off Howell at his luxury condominium in Sunny Isles Beach, the receipt shows.

Later, a young union finance worker noticed the car service's exorbitant cost. The employee googled the Miami Gardens address, discovering it was Tootsie's Cabaret.

The 76,000-square-foot venue bills itself as the world's largest strip club — «full nude No. 1 rated.»

The employee flagged the receipt to the union's travel department for a higher level of review, two people familiar with union operations told ESPN. The head of union travel then forwarded the documents to compliance for review by union lawyers, the sources said.

More than a year later, Howell and two employees visited a strip club in Atlanta, according to the expense reports obtained by ESPN.

During this year's NFLPA Summit on Feb. 21, Howell accompanied two union employees to the Magic City strip club for an outing that included $2,426 in charges including cash withdrawals, ranging from $200 to $525, from a club ATM, sources and documents show.