Lawyers for Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott continue to accuse the NFL of conspiring to hide and suppress evidence in their 13-month investigation of him for violating the personal conduct policy, resulting in a six-game suspension.
Jeffrey Kessler, a lawyer for the National Football League Players Association representing Elliott, called out Lisa Friel, the NFL’s senior vice president for investigations, numerous times before Judge Amos Mazzant in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas in a hearing for a temporary restraining order against the suspension Tuesday evening.
Kessler said Friel “misrepresented the truth” before a four-person expert panel that helped advise NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in his decision to suspend Elliott for allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend Tiffany Thompson.