Damning allegations against the Washington Commanders continue to mount.
On Saturday, it was reported that the House Oversight Committee had received information alleging that the team withheld ticket revenues that are meant to be shared with visiting teams.
Per NFL rules, home teams are supposed to contribute 40% of ticket revenues to a league-run pool, where the funds are then divvied up among all road teams.
But according to A.J. Perez of Front Office Sports, "at least one person gave information in recent weeks to Congressional investigators" in which they claimed the Commanders didn't contribute their full 40%.
It was unclear how long the alleged withholding of funds ran for or who was behind it, the report said. The league and the Commanders declined to comment.
The report comes just days after a separate report from Front Office Sports indicating that the Oversight Committee had expanded its initial investigation of the Commanders -- which was based on allegations of a hostile workplace following accusations of sexual harassment -- to include potential "deceptive accounting practices."
According to that report, the Committee was looking into whether the Commanders had used "two books" of financial records that paint different pictures of the team's money situation. Also being investigated, according to Perez, was a potential disparity in pay for male and female workers.
Critics of the Democrat-controlled Oversight Committee investigation have dismissed it as a partisan exercise.
GOP Oversight Spokesperson Austin Hacker said in a statement on Friday: "The leak of one-sided, unconfirmed, unsupported allegations from a disgruntled ex-employee with an ax to grind is just further proof the Democrats' investigation is a waste of Congress' time."
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