“We will be able to verify the NFL engaged former [Securities and Exchange Commission] chair Mary Jo White in February to appear into allegations made via Hue Jackson towards the Cleveland Browns,” a league spokesperson informed CNN on Monday.
In early February, Jackson — who was once the Browns’ head trainer from 2016 to his firing right through the 2018 season and who’s these days the pinnacle trainer of Grambling State College — had made feedback on social media implying he was once paid to lose video games when he was once the Browns’ head trainer.
Jackson had made the allegations after former Miami Dolphins trainer Brian Flores filed a discrimination class-action lawsuit towards the NFL and 3 groups.
Former Arizona Cardinals head trainer Steve Wilks and longtime NFL assistant trainer Ray Horton added themselves to the lawsuit this month towards the league, Dolphins, Denver Broncos and New York Giants — and the Cardinals, Tennessee Titans and Houston Texans have been added to the go well with as a part of the modification as neatly.
Within the lawsuit Flores alleges, amongst different issues, Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross presented to pay him to purposely lose video games in an effort to download a greater NFL draft place and inspired Flores to purposely violate league tampering regulations.
Ross and the Dolphins have denied the allegations.
In a next unique with the Knoxville Information Sentinel in early February, Browns proprietor Jimmy Haslam stated: “Unequivocally, Hue Jackson was once by no means paid to lose video games. This is an absolute falsehood.”
After Jackson’s preliminary claims on social media, he informed CNN on February 4 he was once now not paid to lose video games however thinks his state of affairs has some similarities to Flores’.
He informed CNN on February 5 the Browns had a “four-year plan that was once installed position to incentivize now not successful” and that the plan was once to win within the remaining two years of that span.
In accordance with the claims, the workforce launched a commentary attributed to a Browns spokesperson which learn: “Although Hue recanted his allegations a short while when they have been made, it was once necessary to us and to the integrity of the sport to have an unbiased assessment of the allegations.
“We welcomed an investigation and we’re assured the consequences will display, as we have prior to now mentioned, that those allegations are categorically false. We’ve absolutely cooperated with Mary Jo White and sit up for the findings.”
In an editorial posted Monday, Jackson informed Sports activities Illustrated: “Two years in the past I attempted to try this the fitting manner, throughout the bylaws and charter of the Nationwide Soccer League, to invite them to research the Cleveland Browns for all of the allegations that I have made. So why open an investigation now?”
