Friedman, via his legal professionals, stood by his testimony and mentioned he would reply follow-up questions from any of the federal government companies reviewing the staff’s actions.
“My consumer can be ready to defend himself publicly towards these baseless allegations if Mr. Snyder permits him to take action,” his legal professionals, Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, mentioned, referring to the staff’s proprietor, Daniel Snyder. “Within the meantime, we are going to talk straight with the staff about these demonstratively false allegations.”
In March, Friedman testified to the committee a couple of follow he mentioned some staff executives referred to as “juicing,” through which income from N.F.L. sport tickets was reported as having come from different occasions held on the staff’s stadium so as to cut 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 faculty video games or live shows hosted on the staff’s stadium in Maryland. In testimony the committee cited in its letter to the F.T.C., Friedman mentioned staff 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 Snyder.
Snyder, via a consultant, declined to remark.
In Monday’s submission to the F.T.C., the staff mentioned 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 staff provided display screen photographs of emails it claims present that the cash was correctly listed because the N.F.L. staff income.
Friedman additionally testified that in his position he oversaw the processing of safety deposits paid by season-ticket holders and that after Snyder purchased the staff in 1999, the staff deliberately made it troublesome 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 mentioned, they refunded the safety deposits of about 750, or half, of the dormant accounts, and over time returned greater than $2 million.
