{"id":91435,"date":"2020-07-16T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=91435"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:44:07","slug":"women-allege-sexual-harassment-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/07\/16\/women-allege-sexual-harassment-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen Women Allege Sexual Harassment Against Washington Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen women have alleged sexual harassment against the Washington football team, formerly known as the Redskins, according to a Washington Post article. The article detailed a pattern of sexual harassment and verbal abuse within the Washington Redskins organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Fifteen women who worked for Redskins allege sexual harassment by former scouts and members of owner Daniel Snyder\u2019s inner circle <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MwMTOFupF9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/MwMTOFupF9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1283876236725452803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Harassment in the Washington Organization<\/h2>\n<p>This story included interviews with more than 40 current and former employees. Text messages and internal company documents were also reviewed. The allegations raised by former employee Emily Applegate and others occurred over the time period spanning 2006-2019, a majority of owner Daniel Snyder&#8217;s tenure, who purchased the team in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Among the men accused of harassment and verbal abuse are three former members of the team. Larry Michael, the club\u2019s longtime radio voice, Alex Santos, the team\u2019s director of pro personnel, and Richard Mann II, assistant director of pro personnel, all recently left the organization. In addition, Dennis Greene, former president of business operations, was also listed for inappropriate behavior.<\/p>\n<p>None of these women allege any inappropriate behavior from Snyder or former president Bruce Allen. At the time of this publication, it is unknown whether either was aware of these alleged incidents.<\/p>\n<h3>Snyder&#8217;s Rule Through the Organization<\/h3>\n<p>It was also reported that Snyder routinely belittled top executives. In addition, Snyder had ordered Greene, a cheerleader in college, to do cartwheels for their entertainment. Julia Payne, former vice president of communications for the team in 2003, says that she has\u00a0 \u201cnever been in a more hostile, manipulative, passive-aggressive environment \u2026 and I worked in politics.\u201d Payne was also a former assistant press secretary in the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n<h3>Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>Applegate has been asked by members within the organization about whether or not she is afraid of potential backlash. She had a simple response. \u201cI don\u2019t see what I have to be afraid of,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I\u2019m just telling the truth.\u201d When asked why she endured everything, she replied, \u201cI needed to keep my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes down to it, 98 percent of people make decisions on stuff like this based on needing to keep their jobs \u2026 which is why this stuff goes on for so long,\u201d Applegate added.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"gdY525PRSUx-eLWp-1QvzQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1185460548\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gdY525PRSUx-eLWp-1QvzQ',sig:'3nnwglFktUvBYia5nmvWpaA_sbUZwfyxX0N5QtysEMg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1185460548',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen women have alleged sexual harassment against the Washington football team, formerly known as the Redskins, according to a Washington Post article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3384,"featured_media":91491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36,8896],"tags":[7281],"class_list":["post-91435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-football-team","category-nfl-news","category-washington-commanders","tag-washington-football-team-news"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}