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NFL Counsel Said Jon Gruden Emails Were Leaked by Commanders, Allen Told Committee

The leaked emails that led to the resignation of former Raiders coach Jon Gruden were leaked by Dan Snyder and the Commanders, according to the report issued by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform on Thursday.

Former team president Bruce Allen testified that an NFL executive told him that Snyder’s representatives leaked Gruden’s emails, which contained misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ language, last year, eventually leading to his resignation from the Raiders.

“By June 2021, Mr. Snyder went one step further: he identified for the NFL ‘specific inappropriate Bruce Allen e-mails’ to bolster the claims that Mr.