Internal investigation equals cover up?

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, The Lobo said:

Forgive me here, but worse as in cheating or treating people horribly ?

In context, it's most likely something related to sexual harassment or racial discrimination.

That'd be bad enough on its own, but in today's political climate and in the midst of the #metoo movement, yikes!

[fjblair]

The cover is blown and the conspiracy confirmed.

Predictable internet banter.

Practically every large company/business/corporation would conduct an internal investigation in this situation. It's expected.

 

[csx]

56 minutes ago, fjblair said:

The cover is blown and the conspiracy confirmed.

Predictable internet banter.

Practically every large company/business/corporation would conduct an internal investigation in this situation. It's expected.

 

Exactly. If there are charges we will find out regardless.

 

 

[SmokinwithWilly]

3 hours ago, sanjay_rajput said:

MICHAEL JORDAN is going to be the next owner of the CAROLINA PANTHERS.

When J.R. is ready to turn it over.

 

 

 

But would Cho get a shot at GM?

[beastson]

1 hour ago, fjblair said:

The cover is blown and the conspiracy confirmed.

Predictable internet banter.

Practically every large company/business/corporation would conduct an internal investigation in this situation. It's expected.

 

That's the point here, the NFL should be doing it.

[PandaPancake]

I tell the irs that I'll do my own audit

[Cyberjag]

3 hours ago, PandaPancake said:

I tell the irs that I'll do my own audit

This actually isn't a bad analogy.  Your accountant may come to you and ask you about some deductions you took, so you launch an internal investigation.  The IRS may find out about it, and they might even review your return, but unless there's some sort of evidence that you did something wrong they're not going to spend the resources to investigate.

It's already been said, but bears repeating.  Any large corporation is going to investigate all issues regarding potential legal exposure.  This is particularly so when it's in the entertainment business, which the Panthers are, where managing public opinion is so important.  The Donald Sterling situation was different because a tape emerged of him running his mouth in a way that I can't imagine JR doing.

Imagine if you will a disgruntled ex-employee calling the Panthers with a claim that they had a tape of JR eating at Popeye's, or something equally troublesome.  Don't you think the Panthers would immediately start covering their bases and investigating whether such a tape could even exist?  If it turns out that he did, I imagine they would notify the NFL and have a plan in place to cover the fallout that has the least impact on the Panthers and the Shield.  So I'm just going to wait and see what happens before I cast judgement.

And for what it's worth, Florio sucks.  He is more interested in stirring siht up to get clicks than he is in honest journalism.  So thanks for doing the copy/paste here, I do my best to avoid giving him a single click and that helped.

 

[Khyber53]

12 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I say "cover up" not in the sense that they can make it go away (obviously they can't) but more in the vein of trying to choose the outcome they want.

The team does its own investigation, decides on its own punishment, then smiles at the NFL and says "See, we took care of the whole thing. No need for you to look into it or do anything else."

It's about control.

You're espousing a disheartening pre-judgement of guilt.

[Mr. Scot]

10 hours ago, fjblair said:

The cover is blown and the conspiracy confirmed.

Predictable internet banter.

Practically every large company/business/corporation would conduct an internal investigation in this situation. It's expected.

How many large companies do you know of that are in a partnership with 31 other large companies in the same business?

This always should have been a league investigation.

[Mr. Scot]

2 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

You're espousing a disheartening pre-judgement of guilt.

I'll ask the same question I've asked already.

If this were any other team telling the league "don't bother investigating; we'll take care of it ourselves" what would you say?

Obviously it didn't last long, so...

[Mr. Scot]

So yeah, looks like the team was indeed trying to control the narrative.

They found out about the Sports Illustrated investigation, then reached out to former employees (including those who had received payouts) to encourage them to keep quiet. Followed that up by announcing the internal investigation to keep the NFL out, but that obviously failed.

This is bad, real bad.