NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that he does not think there is a means citing the truth that some former women workers spoke to private investigators on the condition of anonymity.In a news conference on the very first day of NFL owners meetings in New york city, Goodell said he believed the league did the right point by not soliciting a created record on the probe, which corroborated cases of a toxic job society as well as prevalent sexual harassment in Washington under owner Daniel Snyder. And he restated that the NFL does not plan to publicly release added information about the investigation, despite phone call to do so."We're extremely aware of seeing to it that we're shielding those that stepped forward,"Goodell said."They were unbelievably take on, incredibly open as well as we appreciate the pain that they most likely underwent throughout again to come onward.
" Goodell's remarks echoed previous declarations from the league yet also increased eyebrows given that, just a few hrs earlier, a few of the exact same women the commissioner asserted to be shielding supplied a letter to NFL owners, prompting them to launch even more info concerning the probe.One of the
women, Rachel Engleson, likewise soon after his news conference finished.
"We were told our identifications would certainly be maintained private in a created record,"Engleson wrote. "Definition, if I mentioned something that occurred to me, there would be no chance Dan or others might map the information back to
me. Not that there would certainly be no written record. C'mon."The league's handling of the WFT investigation, which was performed by lawyer Beth Wilkinson, has actually come under restored analysis in recent weeks after e-mails gotten as part of the probe were leaked to media outlets.
The e-mails revealed Las vega Raiders trainer Jon Gruden using racist, homophobic and also misogynistic language in exchanges with then-WFT executive Bruce Allen in between 2011 and also 2018, when Gruden was working at ESPN. Gruden has actually since surrendered as instructor of the Raiders. (Allen was fired in 2019.)
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VIEWPOINT: The Gruden emails triggered questions about what could be in the various other emails the NFL acquired as component of the WFT examination, and why the league declined to release a created record as it has in previous exterior probes.
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