Dan Snyder has avoided most of the legal scrutiny that would happen if even half of the allegations against him were true, and a large part of that comes from the protection afforded by the NFL “shield” and Commissioner Roger Goodell. ESPN published a bombshell article today that lays out, in impressive detail, the allegations at the heart of a federal investigation. A $55 million credit line from Bank of America sparked a war between Snyder and the three minority owners of the team that he eventually bought out.
This was another long-form article from Don Van Natta Jr.