{"id":1720556,"date":"2022-11-01T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720556"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:34:38","slug":"nfls-commanders-raise-questions-about-financial-ties-between-liberal-activists-and-oversight-committee-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfls-commanders-raise-questions-about-financial-ties-between-liberal-activists-and-oversight-committee-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL\u2019s Commanders Raise Questions About Financial Ties Between Liberal Activists and Oversight Committee Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfls-commanders-raise-questions-about-financial-ties-between-liberal-activists-and-oversight-committee-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Washington Commanders are raising questions about the nexus between the law and public relations firms representing former team employees and the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who launched an investigation last year into the team\u2019s workplace culture.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the franchise suggested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Commanders-Committee-letter-response-to-Katz-and-Banks-10-27-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to the House Oversight Committee last week that the law firm Katz Banks Kumin LLP\u2014best known for its representation of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford\u2014and the public relations firm SKDK may have a &#8220;financial stake in the outcome of the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a delicate way of saying this: Both Debra Katz and Lisa Banks are donors to members of the Oversight Committee, including Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.), whose investigation into the Washington Commanders is in turn providing their firm with a lot of business. Similarly, Democrats on the committee have a cozy relationship with SKDK, which runs communications campaigns for Democratic politicians and left-wing organizations\u2014and which is providing those services for the former Commanders employees.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the only optics problem the investigation has run into: Oversight Committee member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/10\/congressman-probing-commanders-cancels-fundraiser-over-ethics-question-00031230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abruptly canceled a fundraiser<\/a> in the spring that was set to be hosted by a prominent Democratic family behind a campaign to boycott the Commanders. The lobbyists and would-be hosts, Tom and Mike Manatos, touted Krishnamoorthi as their best shot at &#8220;getting rid of Snyder,&#8221; a reference to Commanders owner Dan Snyder.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s letter from the team\u2019s legal counsel is the latest salvo in one of Washington\u2019s most bizarre congressional investigations. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) launched the probe last October, after the Commanders paid a $10 million fine to the NFL following an investigation into workplace conditions at the franchise. Republicans have questioned why a congressional committee tasked with investigating waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government is investigating a private sports franchise.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team\u2019s lawyers at the firm Holland &#038; Knight, House Democrats have been &#8220;uninterested&#8221; in receiving evidence they say would debunk the allegations made by two Katz Banks clients, former Commanders cheerleader Melanie Coburn and former team vice president of sales Jason Friedman. The lawyers offered to share evidence that contradicts their claims of a toxic workplace in an Oct. 5 letter but said they have not heard back from the committee. They said Katz Banks responded to the letter instead, raising additional questions about the relationship with the committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders are raising questions about the nexus between the law and public relations firms representing former team employees and the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who launched an investigation last year into the team\u2019s workplace culture.<br \/>\nThe post NFL\u2019s Commanders Raise Questions About Financial Ties Between Liberal Activists and Oversight Committee Democrats appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1720559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}