Former team president Allen (l) had a batch of misogynistic, derogatory emails in his dormant team accountGetty Images
Commanders owner Daniel Snyder and his attorneys have “sought evidence that would portray” former team President Bruce Allen as the “architect of the toxic behavior” within the organization, according to Clarke, Maske, & Jhabvala of the WASHINGTON POST. Snyder “publicly broadcast those allegations” in a nine-page letter from his lawyers -- signed by former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis -- to committee Chair U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), which is "nearing completion" of its year-long investigation into the team. Davis notes the team’s findings “concluded that the ringleader of the bad behavior in the team’s workplace was Allen.” He wrote, “The fraternity-house culture that Mr. Allen instilled in the Commanders organization is the principal reason that the Commanders came under investigation in the first place.” He also wrote that the team’s “single most significant step” in remedying its toxic workplace “was to rid itself" of Allen. Central to Snyder’s effort to blame Allen was a “batch of misogynist and derogatory emails found in Allen’s dormant team email account.” The emails “have nothing to do with Snyder." His lawyers argued that the "mere existence of the crude and offensive emails” in Allen’s inbox was “proof that Allen, not Snyder, was the bad actor" (WASHINGTON POST, 10/8). In D.C., Thom Loverro wrote the "reality is that most of the accusations" against Snyder were from abuses that took place before Allen was hired in December 2009. It is like saying that former coach Jim Zorn, who coached the team in 2008-09, "was responsible for this year’s 1-4 record” (WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/9).
