with the US House,
oversight committee and I've joked about this in the past
but there was an item in the Wall Street Journal yesterday
that caused me to conclude this really maybe what Snyder is
doing
hunkering down on his superyacht indefinitely.
In order to avoid
being served with a subpoena to testify
before the committee,
they can't serve him
if he's on his boat, and it's docked in some other country.
They can't serve him. If the boat is in international
waters, they can only serve him. If he comes back
to United States
and sets foot on dry land,
his lawyer won't accept service of the subpoena refuses to do
so lawyers, accept service of subpoenas all the time. Why?
Because it saves their client that awkward moment.
You're sitting at
lunch
with a colleague family member. Somebody walks up and hand. You
an envelope. You've been served
You don't want that for your clients, you just, it's inevitable.
If somebody's determined to serve you a subpoena, they're
going to do it and it's going to create an awkward
interaction. It's going to be embarrassing. I'll just accept
service of the subpoena that happens all the time.
It's not happening here.
Could it be
That Daniel Snyder
intends
to live on his yacht
until January, here's why
it's widely believed and this is not a political observation,
it's an observation about politics. But the reality is,
it's widely believed the Republicans are going to retake
control of the House of Representatives
in the upcoming November elections. Now, who knows where
it's going to go. Everybody is aligning
republican-democrat, different arguments different realities,
but The belief is the Republicans retake control of
the house when that happens, if that happens when that happens
the plug gets pulled. When the new Congress
goes into session in January,
on the Washington commanders investigation period is just, does
the ranking member of the committee. The top Republican
on the committee has already said it's going to happen
if and when the Republicans retake control of the house. So
all he's got to do.
He's get through the rest of July. He's already in Israel,
through the balance of July and into, August, August September,
October November
December. And really,
I haven't studied this,
but I would suspect that in that lame duck period from
election day through the end of the year.
The committee if power is transitioning probably stops.
What it's doing? Anyway,
so maybe he only makes it to election day and he's in the clear.
But
if he's committed to this and he's willing to not go to
commanders games,
You're going to watch him on satellite,
good thing that DirecTV is still on satellite,
although I have a feeling you have high speed internet and
would get the Sunday ticket package wherever he is. I have
a feeling that if you're a billionaire you can find
a workaround pretty easily. Make sure you can see the games of
the team that you own
he's committed to that living on a super yacht
indefinitely. He can avoid the subpoena and avoid having to
testify and I think that maybe his best outcome look.
He's not being criticized
as much as maybe he should be
for defying. The efforts of Congress to try to subpoena
him. First of all, people already have their opinion of
Daniel Snyder. It's not like anybody is going to view him
any worse than they already do.
He's already reviled.
You can't hate a guy more than you already hate him. If you
already earned find a hate him, it's not like Congress. Is
currently respect. It's not like he's sticking his thumb in
the eyeball of God.
People don't like Congress, people don't like him.
It's just kind of white noise and the NFL's position is
I don't care. I've said this time and again, they were
afraid of him. Everybody's afraid of him.
And he apparently is afraid of being served because he doesn't
want to have to testify. There's no good way out of it,
especially if he's subpoenaed
and he can't hide behind non-disclosure agreement. So
Another interesting story to monitor his training camps approach
as August unfolds
will we see Daniel Snyder
anywhere
in the United States?
Prior to election day,
is he sufficiently committed to avoiding Services of a subpoena
that he will remain
on his jock? A yacht that is probably nicer
than 99.99% of the homes in the world,
tough Duty.
Floating around on your super yacht.
In order to avoid
being put under the hot light of the house oversight
committee,