Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder’s lawyers send scathing letter to Congress in wake of ongoing probe

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Lawyers representing the Washington Commanders sent a scathing letter to the House Oversight and Reform Committee expressing displeasure about its ongoing workplace misconduct investigation. 

The congressional committee's eight-month investigation found Commanders owner Dan Snyder played a significant role in fostering a toxic work environment and pointed to evidence that suggested he impeded the NFL’s independent probe into those allegations. 

The nine-page letter aggressively fires back at the probe and was addressed to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. The letter characterized the investigation as a "politically inspired hatchet job."

The letter may be a last-ditch effort by Snyder to shift blame. Commanders' legal council Holland & Knight wrote the investigation has been unfair and is an attempt to destroy Snyder's reputation.

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Team co-owner Dan Snyder speaks during the announcement of the Washington Football Team's name change to the Washington Commanders at FedEx Field Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md.   (Rob Carr/Getty Images)

"The investigation of the Washington Commanders has not been fair, thorough, or bipartisan, and it certainly hasn’t sought the truth. From the beginning, the Committee set out with a singular purpose — to destroy Dan Snyder and his family and attempt, with deception, innuendo, and half-truths, to drive him from the National Football League," former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., a partner at Holland & Knight, wrote in the letter. 

That claim is in direct conflict with the NFL's findings from 2021.

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