A look at former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder’s off-field scandals
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
Dan Snyder remains in the news despite no longer owning the Washington Commanders.
Snyder selling the team to a group led by Josh Harris and including Magic Johnson in July for a North American professional sports record $6.05 billion came with the NFL fining him $60 million for sexual harassment and financial improprieties.
On Wednesday, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a letter to the Republican chair in charge asking him to refer Snyder to the Department of Justice for lying under oath.
Snyder’s ownership was under fire long before he and wife Tanya even considered putting the team up for sale. Some centered around a lack of success on the field: two playoff game victories since he bought the team in 1999.
But events away from football put more heat on Snyder, with a series of scandals and investigations that spanned three different team names.
A look at former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder’s off-field scandals
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
Dan Snyder remains in the news despite no longer owning the Washington Commanders.
Snyder selling the team to a group led by Josh Harris and including Magic Johnson in July for a North American professional sports record $6.05 billion came with the NFL fining him $60 million for sexual harassment and financial improprieties.
On Wednesday, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a letter to the Republican chair in charge asking him to refer Snyder to the Department of Justice for lying under oath.
Snyder’s ownership was under fire long before he and wife Tanya even considered putting the team up for sale. Some centered around a lack of success on the field: two playoff game victories since he bought the team in 1999.
But events away from football put more heat on Snyder, with a series of scandals and investigations that spanned three different team names.
A look at what Snyder has gone through in the past three-plus years to lead to this point:
Amid a national reckoning over racism in the wake of the George Floyd protests, prominent sponsors FedEx, PepsiCo, Nike and Bank of America called on the team to abandon its old name, which Snyder long vowed never to do. The team launched a review and on July 13 announcing it was giving up the name after 87 years.
