The NFL is not a monolith, consisting of 32 teams with 32 different owners who are “primarily responsible for steering their own ship,” said Nellie Drew, director of the Center for the Advancement of Sport at the University of Buffalo School of Law. But the investigation announced Thursday appears to be the first of its kind for various workplace violations in the league’s corporate office. Drug Enforcement Administration into former players’ claims that teams were mishandling prescription drugs. The NFL has faced investigations before, including an inquiry by the U.S. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form,” league officials said in a statement. “The NFL offices are places where employees of all genders, races and backgrounds thrive. The league said it would cooperate with the investigation but called the allegations “entirely inconsistent with the NFL’s values and practices.” “We’re gonna get to the bottom of what’s happening and if there is discrimination occurring, we’re gonna make sure we address it and that the NFL is held accountable.” “No one is above the law,” Bonta said in an interview with the Associated Press. The investigation is in response to what Bonta called a “robust public record” that points to a “disturbing and concerning set of allegations about gender and racial discrimination in the NFL.” That includes lawsuits filed by former employees, congressional hearings last year into the workplace practices of the Washington Commanders and a 2022 New York Times article detailing allegations of gender discrimination by more than 30 former female NFL employees. Instead, their probe is focused on the league itself, specifically its corporate offices in New York and California. New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, both Democrats, say they are not targeting any of the league’s 32 teams that take up so much of the country’s cultural space.
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the NFL’s workplace culture on Thursday, issuing subpoenas to executives of one of the world’s richest sports league in search of documents related to an array of accusations that include racial discrimination and sexual harassment.
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