A Redskins executive named in the team’s cheerleading scandal has resigned.
Dennis Greene, Washington’s former president of business operations, is no longer with the team, according to 106.7 The Fan.
On May 2, the New York Times reported some of the team’s cheerleaders felt uncomfortable and exploited over a 2013 trip to Costa Rica, where suiteholders were allowed to attend topless photoshoots among other controversies.
Greene, who had been with the Redskins since 2001, attended a nightclub with some of the suiteholders and nine cheerleaders, who were handpicked by the men to be personal escorts for the evening.
“The issue was that management seemed to condone all of this,” one cheerleader told the New York Times.
Two weeks ago, the Redskins hired Brian Lafemina to be their COO and the president of business operations. Greene was quietly moved to the president of hospitality before eventually stepping down.
On Thursday, Greene was also linked to a new report that claims he oversaw the Redskins “ambassador program,” which present women as cheerleaders to help sell suites. The women, however, were not actually part of the team’s cheerleading squad.
From the New York Times:
He would have the ambassadors line up so he could examine them and choose two to accompany him to suites during the game.
“He would look each of us up and down and say, I want that one and that one, and everyone hated when you got selected for that,” a former ambassador said of the lineups that occurred just a few years ago. “It was humiliating, like we were cattle.”
After the initial Times report, the Redskins said they were “immediately looking into” the allegations, but “based on the dialogue we’ve had with a number of current and former cheerleaders over the past 48 hours, we’ve heard very different first-hand accounts that directly contradict many of the details of the May 2 article. I can promise that once we have completed looking into this matter, if it is revealed that any of our employees acted inappropriately, those employees will face significant repercussions.”
• Matthew Paras can be reached at mparas@washingtontimes.com.
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