CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns have spoken to an NFL investigator wanting into claims by former coach Hue Jackson, who mentioned the group deliberately misplaced video games — tanked — within the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
Jackson, now teaching at Grambling State, was fired by Browns house owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam eight video games into the 2018 season with a 3-36-1 document.
In February, Jackson indicated in a sequence of posts on social media that the group paid him bonuses incentivizing him to lose and that he was set as much as fail. Jackson later softened these claims.
The Browns went 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017.
Spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the league engaged former Securities and Change Fee chair Mary Jo White to look into Jackson’s allegations.
“The evaluate is ongoing and is anticipated to conclude quickly,” McCarthy mentioned in an e mail to The Related Press.
The group launched a press release Monday evening, saying it has labored with the league on its inquiry.
“Though Hue recanted his allegations a short while after they had been made, it was vital to us and to the integrity of the sport to have an unbiased evaluate of the allegations,” group spokesman Peter Jean-Baptiste mentioned. “We welcomed an investigation and we're assured the outcomes will present, as we’ve beforehand said, that these allegations are categorically false.
“We've got cooperated with Mary Jo White and sit up for the findings.”
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