Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder claimed he's the victim of an extortion campaign by one of the franchise's minority owners, according to a court filing Wednesday in Maryland.
Snyder made the filing one day after a Washington Post story reported further details of a $1.6 million settlement the franchise paid to a former employee over a sexual misconduct allegation in 2009.
Snyder's filing in a U.S. District Court in southern Maryland, said one of the team's minority partners, Dwight Schar, was trying to force him to sell the franchise.
"I firmly believe that Plaintiffs' motion and supplemental filing and the news articles that they have generated are the latest in the effort to extort me," the filing stated.