In a letter to the Oversight Committee obtained by WJFK, Dan Snyder’s attorney says that the Commanders owner and the team are “fully willing to cooperate with the committee,” but indicated that Snyder will indeed not be attending Wednesday’s hearing.
On Friday, committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney sent a letter to Snyder’s attorney, Karen Patton Seymour, asking Snyder to reconsider his decision to not testify at the congressional hearing that will be investigating Washington’s workplace culture under Snyder, but Snyder seems to be standing pat that his business outside of the country will not make him able to testify on Wednesday, even virtually, like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will do.
For their reasoning behind not testifying virtually, Seymour noted the committee’s repeated refusal to satisfy requests for “basic information and materials regarding the committee’s inquiry given a number of concerns” that Seymour says were laid out in a letter to the committee earlier this month.
“Regrettably, in its June 17 letter, the Committee again reiterates that it will not accommodate those requests or address the concerns, and insists that it will proceed with the hearing on June 22 notwithstanding Mr. Snyder’s longstanding business conflict, for which he is out of the country,” Seymour’s letter read.
Seymour also reiterates that Snyder won’t be testifying on Wednesday due to his business ventures out of the country, and because Seymour would not be able to be with Snyder during a virtual testimony.
“The Committee again refuses, without explanation, to consider another date for the hearing even though it routinely does so for other witnesses with busy professional schedules like Mr. Snyder,” the letter read. “Your letter’s suggestion that Mr. Snyder may testify remotely does not address my concern that a virtual appearance would not sufficiently protect Mr. Snyder’s interest in having his counsel physically present with him, a basic right that is particularly important in light of pending investigations into matters that are substantially similar to those identified by the Committee.”
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Seymour also added that the committee’s refusal to reschedule the hearing despite Synder’s scheduling conflict “disregards my client’s due process rights.”
The hearing will go forth on Wednesday, but as his attorney indicates, it doesn’t appear that Snyder will be making an appearance, while the committee says Snyder’s reasoning for not attending virtually “do not include any valid reason” to not attend.
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