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Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder said he is 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 The Washington Post
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 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.

The New York Times reported last weekend about the settlement.
On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that it had received a
copy of the agreement and, citing an anonymous source, said it
stemmed from an incident on Snyder's plane while returning from
the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.

In Snyder's filing Wednesday, he said, "The Post's article
includes several quotes from the filing that improperly give the
misleading impression, based on Plaintiffs' position and status,
that there was merit to the allegations of misconduct.
Plaintiffs' purpose in submitting their supplemental filing is
now clear: to try to continue to smear me in an effort to gain
leverage in this business dispute."

The New York Times had earlier reported Sunday that two
investigations in 2009 -- by the team and an outside law firm --
failed to substantiate the former employee's claim. The
newspaper reported that Snyder paid the sum to avoid any
negative publicity. Also in the settlement, Snyder did not admit
wrongdoing, nor did anyone else.

Snyder's filling claims that no evidence of wrongdoing was found
after an investigation by a law firm.

"Plaintiff Schar nevertheless threatened to reveal to discredit
me and embarrass my family, but which the insurance carrier
decided to settle," Snyder said, according to the filing.

In two stories this summer, the Post reported a total of 40
women had said they were sexually harassed while employed by the
franchise. The newspaper also reported that there were "lewd
videos produced by the team from outtakes of cheerleader
calendar shoots in 2008 and 2010." Snyder has said he did not
know about those videos.

The stories coincide with Snyder's three minority partners,
Schar, Fred Smith and Bob Rothman, wanting to sell their shares.
They own a combined 40% of the team. Snyder has reportedly
offered to buy the shares for $900 million. According to Forbes,
Washington's franchise is valued at $3.5 billion; in a sale of
the team, 40% would be worth $1.4 billion.

The NFL is conducting an independent investigation into the
allegations in the Post articles. On Tuesday, former U.S.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch joined the investigation,
focusing on Schar's alleged role in leaking information.

Snyder has alleged in previous filings that Schar was behind
some of the negative information that was included in articles.
On Wednesday, his filing stated that "Dwight Schar has funneled
information about me and the Team to Mary Ellen Blair, a former
Executive Assistant with the Team, to be provided to The
Washington Post."

According to Snyder, Blair made a declaration that Schar told
her to share information with The Washington Post. Snyder's
filing alleged that Schar's daughter bought Blair a "burner
phone" to "attempt to escape detection of Mr. Schar's
conspiratorial communications." He cited "numerous calls" from
that phone to Schar's cellphone number.

Snyder said there have been repeated threats by Schar and others
associated with him over the past five months. Snyder said Schar
threatened "my personal attorney" in a July 25 conversation.

Snyder claimed Schar told his attorney that information would
come out if he didn't sell the team and that the story "will
kill Dan."

A text from the minority owners' investment banker, John Moag,
hinted at what might come out if Snyder didn't cooperate: "And
you know it has nothing to do with the media s--- ...it's the
more serious s---. If you want a s--- show, we are on for that
too."

Moag has confirmed to other outlets that the text was accurate.

There will be a virtual hearing Jan. 7 before U.S. District
Judge Peter Messitte about each side alleging that the other is
leaking information to the media. According to the Post, Snyder,
Schar, Rothman and Smith all have to appear.

Snyder denied in his filing that he has been the source of any
confidential information.

"I am fighting on multiple fronts for interests that go beyond
just me including for the Team that I love, as well as my
family," Snyder said in the filing, "and can swear to this Court
that the accusations I improperly leaked information to the
press are false."

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30593085/daniel-snyder-says- being-extorted-minority-owner-washington-football-team


Are Dan Snyder and Don Juravin The Victims of Dwight Schar’s
Smear Campaigns?

UPDATE: Don Juravin’s legal team is considering filing as an
intervenor which is a nonparty with a bona fide interest in a
litigation or alternatively, file an Amicus Brief.

Dwight Schar, a millionaire who owns a minority stake in the
Washington NFL Football Team, has apparent connections to a high-
profile lawsuit in DC. Currently, Dan Snyder is suing a former
employee who works for a company connected to Schar. Mary-Ellen
Blair, named in the lawsuit, is accused of bribing current
employees to release information about Snyder. She works for
Comstock Holding Companies, which has Schar’s daughter on the
board.

Dan Snyder and Don Juravin complaing of Dwight Schar
Dan Snyder has had several fake stories released about him on
foreign press sites. They say that he is a friend of Jeffery
Epstein, and rode on his plane. They also bring up all the other
scandals involving the NFL Washington Football Team. These sites
are from out of the country. And even though they have taken the
stories down, the headlines remain in Google searches about
Snyder.

This is not the first time that someone who has fallen out of
favor with Dwight Schar has been the victim of a smear campaign
immediately afterward. Don Juravin, a Jewish entrepreneur, who
served in the Israeli military before coming to the United
States to help people, is currently being harassed by websites
hosted on the same server that hosts the Nazi website “The Daily
Stormer”.

When Don Juravin wrote a complaint about Bella Collina, a
community-owned by DCS Capital Investments (a Dwight Schar
company) on Google, Randall Greene, the POA manager, responded,
“We take bogus reviews very seriously.”

The lawsuits began, but Juravin’s family and home were harassed,
vandalized, and doxxed by the employees at Bella Collina, on
Dwight Schar’s payroll. This included the creation of websites
meant to harass Don Juravin and ruin his reputation. One of the
sites was placed on the notorious OrangeWebsite, a server in
Iceland that is also a host to the Nazi website The Daily
Stormer, according to the BBC. Commenters on forums have said
that the owner of OrangeWebsite, Henri Johannes, is a pedophile.

Greene hired one Trevor Scharich to write negative articles
about Don Juravin on one of these websites. Trevor Scharich is
writing defamatory articles about a man whose family survived
the Holocaust.

An attorney who helped families in Bella Collina file a class
action lawsuit against Schar, Greene, and Richard Arrighi (the
head of Phoenix Homes and an ex-felon who committed a heist in
Massachusetts in 2001), was also the victim of a smear campaign.
Tim McCullough was subjected to strange memes made of his face
and posted on deviantart, as well as bizarre press releases
demanding the lawyer apologize for even initiating the class
action.

https://www.abcmoney.co.uk/2020/12/12/are-dan-snyder-and-don- juravin-the-victims-of-dwight-schars-smear-campaigns/

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