In an 18-page letter, the NFL team said allegations by a former employee of long-running financial improprieties are “baseless” and that an investigation is unwarranted.
The rebuttal claims the committee’s letter, which was sent to the FTC on Tuesday, “relies solely on the uncorroborated, false testimony of a single disgruntled former employee,” said former vice president of sales and customer service Jason Friedman, who worked for the team for 24 years.
Szczenski described Friedman’s claims as “speculative, uninformed guesswork” and said he “had virtually no visibility into the Team’s accounting function. He was not present at meetings of the accounting team or included in [their] communications except in very limited circumstances when it involved his department,” according to the letter.
According to the committee’s letter, Friedman also said the team maintained “two sets of books,” including a set of financial records that were used to underreport ticket revenue to the NFL. Friedman told the committee that the team misallocated ticket revenue from Commanders games and other events, including a Navy-Notre Dame college football game and a Kenny Chesney concert, so it wouldn’t be included in the NFL’s revenue-sharing pool.
“If a broker sold a ticket for above face value,” the letter states, “the Team and broker would split the profits according to an agreed-upon percentage, which was referred to as the ‘juice.’ That revenue had a slang term associated with it in no way means it was hidden or misreported. Friedman’s speculation is, again, unfounded.”
Friedman, according to the initial letter sent to the FTC, told the committee that he was instructed by team executives to get “juice” out of some dormant accounts. But the team denied this Monday and specifically referenced a Sept. 12, 2013, email from Friedman that it says shows him as the one proposing to take $100,000 from customers’ security deposits.
The women — Ana Nunez, Brittany Pareti, Dominique Dupras, Emily Applegate, Megan Imbert, Melanie Coburn, Monica Elliott and Tiffani Johnston — released a statement on social media Monday that said co-owners Daniel and Tanya Snyder “started a smear campaign” against Friedman “while completely deflecting and distracting the public from the truth: that the Snyders operate a franchise on corrupt and toxic behavior.
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