- ABC News
- February 3, 2022
New allegations of sexual harassment emerged Thursday about Washington Commanders team owner Daniel Snyder during a congressional roundtable investigating the team's "toxic workplace" and what some members of Congress are calling the NFL's "cover-up." Tiffani Johnston, a former marketing and events coordinator for the team, told a congressional committee that she was "strategically" placed next to Snyder at a work dinner "not to discuss business, but to allow him, Dan Snyder, to place his hand on my thigh under the table." "I learned that job survival meant I should continue my conversation with another co-worker rather than call out Dan Snyder right then in the moment," Johnston continued. "I also learned later that evening how to awkwardly laugh when Dan Snyder aggressively pushed me toward his limo with his hand on my lower back, encouraging me to ride with him to my car. I learned how to continue to say no even though a situation was getting more awkward, uncomfortable...