The office of the Washington, D.C., attorney general announced Thursday it is suing the NFL’s Washington Commanders, team owner Daniel Snyder, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the league. The consumer protection lawsuit accuses the defendants of “colluding to deceive” customers “about an investigation into toxic workplace culture.”
Attorney General Karl Racine said the organization and the league misled district residents about the probe in order to protect and increase revenue.
The suit, filed in the civil division of the D.C. Superior Court, claims the Washington Commanders and the NFL violated the district’s consumer protections with “public misrepresentations, omissions, and ambiguities of material fact.”
[They spent years misleading residents about the claim that they were a football team. I KID, I KID … — Ed]
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