{"id":67810,"date":"2026-03-02T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/commanders-pay-1m-settlement-over-claims-former-ownership-lied-to-teams-fans\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:56:16","slug":"commanders-pay-1m-settlement-over-claims-former-ownership-lied-to-teams-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/commanders-pay-1m-settlement-over-claims-former-ownership-lied-to-teams-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders pay $1m settlement over claims former ownership lied to team\u2019s fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Team previously beset by sexual misconduct claims<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Team was sold to new ownership in 2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/washington-commanders\">Washington Commanders<\/a> have agreed to pay $1m to the District of Columbia to settle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/nov\/10\/daniel-snyder-dc-lawsuit-washington-commanders\">a lawsuit from 2022<\/a> that alleged the team\u2019s previous owners lied to fans about an inquiry into sexual misconduct and a persistently hostile work environment.<\/p>\n<p> DC attorney general Brian L Schwalb announced the settlement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Snyder owned the team at the time of the lawsuit, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/apr\/13\/washington-commanders-sale-daniel-snyder-josh-harris-group\">selling to Josh Harris\u2019s group<\/a> in 2023 for $6.05bn. The league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/jul\/20\/daniel-snyder-fined-washington-commanders-sale\">fined Snyder $60m<\/a> after an independent investigation found he sexually harassed a team employee and oversaw executives who deliberately withheld millions of dollars in revenue from other clubs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/02\/commanders-pay-1m-settlement-over-claims-former-ownership-lied-to-teams-fans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team previously beset by sexual misconduct claims Team was sold to new ownership in 2023 The Washington Commanders have agreed to pay $1m to the District of Columbia to settle a lawsuit from 2022 that alleged the team\u2019s previous owners lied to fans about an inquiry into sexual misconduct and a persistently hostile work environment. &#8230; <a title=\"Commanders pay $1m settlement over claims former ownership lied to team\u2019s fans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/commanders-pay-1m-settlement-over-claims-former-ownership-lied-to-teams-fans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Commanders pay $1m settlement over claims former ownership lied to team\u2019s fans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}