Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder submitted a court filing on Wednesday accusing a team minority owner of attempted extortion.
The filing made in Maryland states minority owner Dwight Schar allegedly tried to force Snyder to sell the franchise. Snyder cites Schar's involvement in Tuesday's report from the Washington Post that uncovered a $1.6 million payment by the Washington Football Team to a former female employee as part of a confidential settlement in 2009 after she described sexual misconduct by Snyder.
"I firmly believe that Plaintiffs' motion and supplemental filing and the news articles that they have generated are the latest in the effort to extort me," the filing stated.