Pat Leonard: Shame on Roger Goodell, NFL for refusing to condemn Steve Tisch over Jeffrey Epstein correspondence
NEW YORK — It wouldn’t have taken much for Roger Goodell and the NFL to condemn New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch’s documented association with Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most notorious sex criminals of the modern world. Even in the absence of any proven crime committed by Tisch, even in the naivest retelling or understanding of Tisch’s correspondences with Epstein, his unacceptable relationship with this man deserves censure. The very least Goodell and the NFL could have done would have been stating that they do not condone Tisch’s association with Epstein, especially since Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2010 for “solicitation of prostitution with a minor” — three years before Tisch’s emails to him.
But Goodell and the NFL’s owners are refusing to do even that. They are proving they’re not brave enough to take a stand. They are instead selectively choosing, it appears, to move on without much acknowledgement at all — with a backdoor solution to any future legal issues.
Goodell was asked Wednesday in Phoenix if the league had found cause to take action against Tisch under the NFL’s personal conduct policy. “There hasn’t been,” Goodell said. “As we said, we’re going to follow the facts.
We have been doing that. We’ve been very focused on making sure we understand everything that’s out there. We’ve engaged with others to make sure we have that information.
” “As you know, the Tisch family also made some family changes,” the commissioner continued. “Steve and John and Laurie actually did some transactions as part of their estate planning and are no longer owners. But we have not found anything that’s a violation at this stage.
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