Six former workers of the Washington Commanders soccer crew participated in a roundtable dialogue with the U.S. Home of Representatives Oversight Committee on Thursday to debate sexism and hostility within the office, with some new sexual harassment allegations coming to mild.

A number of of the allegations centered round crew proprietor Dan Snyder. Although the NFL commissioned an investigation into allegations towards Snyder in 2020, it by no means launched the main points, which the workers criticized on the assembly, the Related Press reported.

Emily Applegate, who labored for the crew's advertising and marketing division, identified the distinction between this investigation and the investigation the NFL carried out after quarterback Tom Brady was accused of throwing deflated footballs.

"When the investigation of the air stress of Tom Brady's soccer concludes with a 200-plus-page report, however the investigation into 20 years of sexual harassment concludes with nothing, it exhibits the NFL's full lack of respect towards ladies, their workers and for the tradition of our nation," Applegate was quoted by the AP.

The 2020 investigation led to the NFL fining the Washington crew $10 million and Snyder's spouse briefly taking up a few of the crew's operations, however there was by no means a public report, in response to the AP.

CBS Sports activities reported Applegate mentioned she skilled harassment every day throughout her time with the newly rebranded Commanders, saying she was "instructed to not communicate to Dan Snyder or to even take a look at Dan Snyder."

Tiffani Johnston, a former cheerleader and advertising and marketing supervisor for the crew, mentioned on the listening to that Snyder as soon as "strategically" seated her subsequent to him at a piece dinner so he may put "his hand on the center of my thigh till I bodily eliminated it," in response to CBS Sports activities.

She additionally alleged that very same evening he "aggressively pushed" her towards his limo till his lawyer warned him towards it, at which level she eliminated herself from his grip, CBS Sports activities added. Johnston's former boss confirmed he witnessed this incident in a letter to one of many lawmakers on the dialogue.

Brad Baker, a former video manufacturing supervisor for the Washington crew, mentioned on the assembly he and others have been instructed to "edit collectively lewd footage" from a cheerleaders' seaside photograph shoot, in response to CBS. Melanie Coburn, former cheerleader and director of selling, corroborated this, calling it "primarily a soft-porn video, soundtracked to Dan Snyder's favourite bands."

Coburn additionally added that in 2005, when she reported to human assets that a member of the Washington crew had harassed her, the division mentioned, "I am sorry that that is occurring.…If it is gonna be him otherwise you, it is gonna be you."

A Washington Publish reporter shared a assertion by Snyder from his public relations consultant to her Twitter.

"Whereas previous conduct on the Group was unacceptable, the allegations leveled towards me personally in at the moment's roundtable—a lot of that are properly over 13 years outdated—are outright lies," Snyder wrote. "I unequivocally deny having participated in any such conduct, at any time and with respect to any particular person."

The Washington Commanders didn't instantly reply to Newsweek's request for remark.

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Former workers for the just lately rebranded Washington Commanders testified throughout a Home Oversight and Reform Committee listening to on sexual harassment within the office. Above, Emily Applegate, former advertising and marketing coordinator for the crew, testifies throughout the listening to on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, February 3.Photograph by Graeme Jennings/AFP by way of Getty Pictures