Snyder's filing may be an intensification of a dispute between him and three minority owners of the team GETTY IMAGES
Washington NFL Owner DANIEL SNYDER accused a former team employee in a federal court filing yesterday of "taking part in what he says is an Internet misinformation campaign involving stories that falsely linked him to convicted sex criminal JEFFREY EPSTEIN and Twitter bots that spread unfounded rumors of Snyder abusing drugs, holding 'sex parties' and bribing NFL referees," according to Will Hobson of the WASHINGTON POST. The filing "accuses MARY ELLEN BLAIR, a former executive assistant to Snyder, of acting as an intermediary for unnamed adversaries whom Snyder believes paid an Indian-based online news company to publish false stories linking him to Epstein." Blair's attorney yesterday released a statement "denying her client had any involvement." Snyder's filing "seeks documents from Blair as well as from Comstock Holding Companies, a Virginia real estate company that owns rental properties where Blair has lived." Yesterday's filing "appears to mark an intensification in an ongoing dispute between Snyder and three minority owners of the team over the franchise's direction." While his name is "not mentioned in the filing, DWIGHT SCHAR, one of those minority owners seeking to sell his share of the team, is the father-in-law" of Comstock CEO CHRISTOPHER CLEMENTE. Schar's daughter, TRACY SCHAR, is Comstock Senior VP/Marketing & Brand Management and sits on the company's BOD (WASHINGTON POST, 8/11). Blair, reached by phone yesterday, said that she was “unaware of the filing.” Blair: “That’s funny” (N.Y. TIMES, 8/11).
