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In March, Friedman testified to the committee a few apply he stated some workforce executives known as “juicing,” through which income from N.F.L. sport tickets was reported as having come from different occasions held on the workforce’s stadium with a purpose to scale back the quantity of ticket income it was required to share with the 31 different N.F.L. groups.
One instance he supplied concerned licensing charges for school video games or concert events hosted on the workforce’s stadium in Maryland. In testimony the committee cited in its letter to the F.T.C., Friedman stated workforce executives stored one set of books with the altered numbers it submitted to the N.F.L. and a second set with the correct accounting that was proven to the workforce proprietor Daniel Snyder.
Snyder, by way of a consultant, declined to remark.
In Monday’s submission to the F.T.C., the workforce stated its auditors, in addition to these from the N.F.L., had entry to all income, together with from non-N.F.L. occasions, and would have found such a discrepancy had it existed. Particularly responding to Friedman’s declare that $162,360 from Commanders video games was categorized as income from a university sport, the workforce provided display screen pictures of emails it claims present that the cash was correctly listed because the N.F.L. workforce income.
Friedman additionally testified that in his function he oversaw the processing of safety deposits paid by season-ticket holders and that after Snyder purchased the workforce in 1999, the workforce deliberately made it tough for ticket holders to recoup their refundable funds. He alleged that the Commanders group held on to $5 million from such deposits.
Washington disputed these claims, saying it transformed about $200,000 in safety deposits into income, however solely after these prospects defaulted on their funds. In 2014 alone, the Commanders stated, they refunded the safety deposits of about 750, or half, of the dormant accounts, and over time returned greater than $2 million.
Final week, the N.F.L. stated that Mary Jo White, a former federal prosecutor employed by the league, would look into the claims of monetary malfeasance raised by Friedman. White was already investigating allegations by feminine former workers who stated they have been sexually harassed by Snyder, who has denied these allegations.
On Monday, the N.F.L. declined to touch upon the letter.
