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In a wide-ranging story about the Washington Football Team’s culture and the experiences of former female employees, the Washington Post details numerous allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct at the team’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, and at other team functions. | Alex Brandon/AP
A former senior vice president with the Washington Football Team reportedly instructed video staffers to compile the images from cheerleader photo shoots, according to the Washington Post.
A former senior vice president with the Washington Football Team instructed video staffers to compile “lewd outtakes” from cheerleader photo shoots, and more than two dozen women say they experienced sexual harassment while working for the team, according to a report by The Washington Post published Wednesday.
In a wide-ranging story about the team’s culture and the experiences of former female employees, the newspaper details numerous allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct at the team’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, and at other team functions.
It also details one allegation directly involving team owner Daniel Snyder in which former cheerleader Tiffany Bacon Scourby said she was humiliated after Snyder approached her at a 2004 charity event and suggested she go to a hotel room with his friend so the two ”could get to know each other better.”
Sean DeBarbieri, a spokesperson for the Washington Football Team, told USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday that the team had no comment on Wednesday’s report.
Snyder did not agree to an interview with The Post, and an NFL spokesperson did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The report comes a little more than a month after 17 women — including 15 former employees, and two media members — previously told The Post that they had been sexually harassed by members of Washington’s front office. The team said at the time that it had retained D.C.-based law firm Wilkinson Walsh to review the reported allegations and the team’s culture.
In Wednesday’s report, one of the new allegations detailed by the newspaper involves “lewd outtakes” from cheerleader photo shoots in both 2008 and 2010, which included shots of exposed nipples. Former team employees told The Post the videos were compiled at the instruction of former senior vice president Larry Michael, who abruptly retired last month before being named in The Post’s July story.
One unnamed employee claimed that Michael requested the footage from the 2010 shoot be loaded onto a DVD bearing the title “For Executive Meeting,” according to the report. A second former employee, Brad Baker, told The Post he was present when Michael told staff members in 2008 to “get the good bits of the behind-the-scenes video from the cheerleader shoot onto a DVD” for Snyder.
“Larry said something to the effect of, ‘We have a special project that we need to get done for the owner today,’” Baker told the newspaper, which obtained copies of both videos.
Michael denied those claims in an interview with The Post, saying in part that “I was never asked to nor did I ask someone to compile …read more
Source:: Chicago Sun Times
