Jenn Sterger's Attorney Concerned Over Delay In Brett Favre Ruling By NFL

The attorney for Jenn Sterger expressed concern yesterday that the NFL has delayed issuing a decision on allegations against Vikings QB Brett Favre in order to avoid disciplining Favre, who is expected to retire after this season. "He is a high-profile athlete and a star in this league," said Joseph Conway, Sterger's attorney. "He did do it or he didn't do it. There are lots of reasons to believe he is getting preferential treatment." The allegations that Favre sent inappropriate phone messages and photos to Sterger in '08, when he was the Jets' QB and she was a game-day host for the team, first surfaced on deadspin.com earlier this year. Conway said Sterger and her representatives had given the NFL all it needs to prove that Favre violated the NFL's personal conduct policy, including an almost two-hour interview between Sterger and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Dec. 16, for which she flew to N.Y. at the NFL's request. "I don't know what is taking so long," Conway said. Conway also said he was concerned by a statement that the NFL put out last week regarding a memo sent to teams about a new workplace conduct program, which stated that employees had the right to a workplace free from harassment, discrimination and intimidation. "My concern is, they come out a few days before Christmas with a new policy and it leads me to believe there will be no discipline and will hide behind the fact that they have corrected the problem because they have a new policy in effect," Conway said. Asked about Conway's statements and about when the league would make a decision, NFL Senior VP/PR Greg Aiello said in an e-mail: "Mr. Conway speaks to our office regularly and we would be more than pleased to discuss these questions with him directly. He is aware that we undertook a very comprehensive investigation and have continued that review diligently. As Mr. Conway knows, we do not have subpoena power and it is sometimes difficult to reconstruct events that occurred more than two years ago." Conway, however, said that he is not in regular contact with the NFL and that he asked league attorneys last week for the memo explaining the new workplace policy but had not received it. Conway, a former assistant U.S. attorney, also said this is the first he has heard that the investigation has been impeded by the NFL's lack of subpoena power. "The fact that they don't have subpoena power is a non-issue in this investigation; they knew that going in," he said.

Source: Sports Business Journal

 

Jesus Christ.....just STFU already.

 

I couldn't agree with The Mush any more. If it was that big of a deal you'd of said something when it happened. Not when people were sick of your tits and wouldn't give you a job.

 

Goodell should suspend him for the whole offseason just to heck with these idiots.