Hapless Bills Fan Posted October 8, 2021 Posted October 8, 2021 https://sports.yahoo.com/washington-football-team-facility-reportedly-raided-by-feds-head-trainer-ryan-vermillion-placed-on-leave-181651445.html Federal law enforcement reportedly raided the Washington Football Team's INOVA Sports Performance Center last week (Friday week), according to NBC Sports Washington's J.P. Finlay, Grant Paulsen and Julie Carey. It appears to be related to an ongoing criminal investigation involving head athletic trainer and director of sports medicine Ryan Vermillion, who has been placed on administrative leave by the team. https://sports.yahoo.com/mystery-surrounding-raid-on-washington-team-facility-deepens-as-union-says-an-active-nfl-player-has-spoken-to-the-dea-212530489.html As the NFL awaits developments tied to Friday’s federal raid on the Washington Football Team’s practice facility and townhome of head trainer Ryan Vermillion, the players union reached out to a swath of player agents Thursday seeking information on an apparent DEA investigation. The NFLPA sent a letter to player agents on Thursday morning, alerting them to an investigation the union has opened into the raid — in response to what the union believes is a potential issue of player health and safety. In the letter, which was reviewed by Yahoo Sports, the union said at least one active player has been contacted by federal agents in response to a DEA investigation. However, a source familiar with the letter and also the union’s efforts to gather information said federal investigators have sought out more than one active player, although the source declined to give any further specifics. ...... Interestingly, a league source familiar with Friday’s developments said neither the Washington Football Team nor NFL league office was aware of a federal investigation involving Vermillion — despite an active player having been in contact with investigators. The source said the league’s knowledge has been limited to whatever the Washington franchise learned on Friday, before the franchise placed Vermillion on administrative leave. NBC Sports Washington cited sources on Wednesday in a report that the probe into Vermillion was related to “possible diversion of prescription drugs”, but a league source declined to confirm that or whether federal agents were seeking prescription drug information during their search of the WFT facility. “What we know about [the search] is very limited and what the [DEA] is sharing is very little,” the league source said. “Anyone in contact is being advised by investigators and also their own related legal counsel not to speak about any of it. It doesn’t get any more clear.” (search function is broken, scanned first 2 pages, LMK if this was posted elsewhere and I'll merge) 1 1 Quote
Warcodered Posted October 8, 2021 Posted October 8, 2021 (edited) Can the owner sell the team now or will he just change the name to the Washington TBDs as a distraction. Edited October 8, 2021 by Warcodered Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted October 8, 2021 Posted October 8, 2021 6 minutes ago, Warcodered said: Can the owner sell the team now or will he just change the name to the Washington TBDs as a distraction. Two Bills Drives? 5 Quote
LeviF Posted October 8, 2021 Posted October 8, 2021 Didn’t this happen like a week ago? The DEA has two main investigation arms that I know of: Special Agents who deal with significant criminal trafficking of drugs and related crimes, and Diversion Investigators who are largely tasked with examining pharmacy and other medical facilities dealings with certain classes of drugs. Diversion Investigators are not law enforcement officers. Quote
BuffaloBillyG Posted October 8, 2021 Posted October 8, 2021 So, the NFL head office is having a REALLY bad day today. 3 Quote
Don Otreply Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 (edited) 48 minutes ago, LeviF said: Didn’t this happen like a week ago? The DEA has two main investigation arms that I know of: Special Agents who deal with significant criminal trafficking of drugs and related crimes, and Diversion Investigators who are largely tasked with examining pharmacy and other medical facilities dealings with certain classes of drugs. Diversion Investigators are not law enforcement officers. True enough, they do work hand in hand with law the enforcement officers section if malfeasance is an issue. That and it required law enforcement officials to exercise the raid. Edited October 9, 2021 by Don Otreply 1 Quote
Mark Vader Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 20 minutes ago, No Place To Hyde said: So, the NFL head office is having a REALLY bad day today. Is this true @Roger Goodell? 3 Quote
SirAndrew Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 When I first glanced at this post, I thought they finally settled on a name of “Federal Law Enforcement” for a moment. 3 Quote
BillsfaninChicago Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 The Washington Work Release Program 🤷🏻♂️ Quote
Don Otreply Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 24 minutes ago, Mark Vader said: Is this true @Roger Goodell? You just know Roger said Fuh K about twenty times when he was made aware of the raid…, ala “the kings speech” , 😁👍 1 Quote
The Wiz Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 Typical of the feds to raid the wrong place. Norman signed with the Chiefs guys. Not WFT. 1 1 Quote
JoPoy88 Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 On 10/8/2021 at 8:28 PM, wppete said: Steroids scandal? I’d bet it’s some sort of pill ring. 1 Quote
Warcodered Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said: I’d bet it’s some sort of pill ring. Just trying to finally solve the case of what happened to their name. Quote
The Dean Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/10/09/washington-football-team-places-second-trainer-on-administrative-leave/ Quote
Hapless Bills Fan Posted October 10, 2021 Author Posted October 10, 2021 46 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said: I’d bet it’s some sort of pill ring. Sounding probable. From link above: Quote Washington assistant athletic trainer Doug Quon has been placed on administrative leave, according to John Keim of ESPN. That comes just days after Washington put head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion on leave amid a DEA investigation. The investigation reportedly centers around the distribution of prescription drugs. Quote
MJS Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 On 10/8/2021 at 4:37 PM, Warcodered said: Can the owner sell the team now or will he just change the name to the Washington TBDs as a distraction. Beat me to it. He doesn't have a name change to distract everyone with this time. Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 On 10/8/2021 at 8:28 PM, wppete said: Steroids scandal? Except with the WFT, they give them to the cheerleaders and ladies at the 'gentleman's club', to promote development in other areas. 🤔 1 Quote
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