Ex-NFLPA boss Howell’s strip club expenses sent to investigator

Former NFL Players Association leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned after receiving documents to an external investigator hired by the Union this week, showing that he charged the union for two trips for strip clubs, including $ 738.82 car service, which was taken to a club from the airport.

There are expenditure reports and receipts approved by the documents union, which ESPN started asking questions a few hours before resigning late Thursday night.

A receipt received by ESPN suggests that Hawl was picked up in a sedan by a car service at Fort Lauderdel International Airport on Thursday, 2 November 2023, at 10:26 pm at the address of the nearby Miami Garden. The receipt shows only another stop after about eight hours.

At 6 in the morning, the car dropped the Hawl in its luxury condominem in the Sunny Isles Beach, showing the receipt.

Later, a youth union finance worker paid attention to excessive cost of car service. The employee Gugala to the address of the Miami Garden, it is known that it was Toti’s cabaret.

The 76,000 square foot site bills itself as the world’s largest strip club-“Full naked number 1 rated.”

The employee gave the receipt to the union’s travel department for a high level review, two people told ESPN, familiar with the operation of the union. Sources said that the head of the Union Travel forwarded documents for compliance with the review by the union lawyers.

According to expenditure reports received by ESPN, after a year, Hawl and two employees visited a strip club in Atlanta.

During this year’s NFLPA Summit on 21 February, Howell included $ 2,426 including cash withdrawal from $ 200 to $ 525 from a club ATM, sources and documents for an outing with two union employees at the Magic City Strip Club. He used two “VIP rooms”.

According to the expenditure report, the purpose of strip club outing: “Player engagement occur to support and develop our union.”

The NFLPA summit is an annual program to promote leadership between players and youth union employees.

One of the employees coming with Hawl presented the expenditure report for this outing, showing documents. Hawl directed the employee to file an expenditure report, two sources familiar with the case told ESPN.

The employee mentioned on an expenditure report of March 23: “$ 736 = It was the last amount that I was charged for closing the tab for both the members of our players. It included food, alcoholic beverages, fees, taxes and gratuity.” No player’s names are not listed on receipts or reports.

Documents suggest that four cash withdrawal was flagged with “alert”, apparently mentioned potential reimbursement violations.

Hawell could not be immediately reached for comment. A union spokesperson refused to comment.

Ronald C, a lawyer of Wilmer Hale. Machen was hired by a special committee of players to examine the activities of Howell. “Our job is going on,” a source close to Macchan told ESPN.

Federal labor laws are strict when it comes to the expenses and reimbursement of a union; The purpose of the laws is to protect the members of the union whose funds give funds to all the operations, on the contrary what happens in the corporate environment.

A widely awarded experienced labor lawyer Bob Strop told ESPN that car service reimbursement is “that kind of sexy thing. [U.S.] Labor Department. ,

“It’s very terrible,” said the 77 -year -old Strop, a former general lawyer of the United States of America. “It’s incredible. I don’t know how you reach around him. It is difficult to believe that anyone will be stupid.”

NFLPA has its own set of strict guidelines on all types of reimbursement, but especially for entertainment, former Union officials say. An former union employee stated that within the “entertainment” category of the union, there are no specific exclusion for places like the strip club.

The former employee said, “But I don’t think anyone in his right mind thinks that this is a good scenario.” “In its light, that aspect of the policy should be clearly seen again.”

Howell was elected Union President in 2024 and paid $ 3.6 million last year. He has lived in Miami since 2019; Records suggest that they paid $ 6.8 million for three-bedroom condominium in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isls Beach in September 2019. In the building, the owners for the in-union garage are included to bring their prized vehicles into the house. ” The 132-Unit building, like its neighbors in the building, has access to a lift to make your car directly to his residence.

Regarding the expenditure report presented for strip clubs, the question has come first in the career of the hope. His former employer, Buz Alan, also questioned him about the company’s visit to a strip club on time.

In 2015, Howell and a senior vice -president visited a manhattan, New York, Strip Club, where he ran thousands of dollars for night entertainment, an executive of Elon, a former Buzz Alan, told ESPN. Later, Hawl’s associate demanded reimbursement on an expenditure report, which was referred to for the firm compliance lawyers.

The colleague was fired, and Haww reprimanded, the executive said. At the time, Hawl was a defendant filed by Allen Saathi in a case of sexual discrimination and vengeance. Buz Alan settled – for an unknown amount – the case that Hellow and the company alleged that female employees ruled out the roles and excluded them from some career opportunities provided to men.

Another former Buzz Alan’s executive told ESPN that the company was concerned about disciplining Hawl while the case was active. Sources said that a year later, Buz Alan promoted Hawl as his Chief Financial Officer, with the support of CEOs and officials in the Carlile Group, sources said.

In his resignation statement on Thursday night, 59 -year -old Howell said: “It is clear that my leadership has become an distraction for the important work of NFLPA advances every day. For this reason, I have informed the NFLPA Executive Committee that I am taking steps as the Executive Director of NFLPA and will immediately carry forward the Chairman of the Board of NFL players.

Haww was resigned on his own and surprised some members of the NFLPA’s 10-person executive committee, who tried repeatedly to persuade him to persuade the Sangh during a long conference call on Thursday night, people informed the call.

Resignation came after several recent reports of ESPN and “Pablo Torre Locating”: Podcast:

• Earlier on Thursday, ESPN reported a case of Buz Allen sexual discrimination and vengeance which included Hawells and whether the players who voted for him to lead NFLPA knew about it.

• In May, ESPN reported that FBI belongs to the financial behavior of the union and a multivio-dollar group of MLB players, an ontem partners. According to sources, the report triggered a special committee of the players of the players to appoint Machen to review Hawl’s activities as Executive Director.

• Last week, ESPN reported that a payment for the Haval Carlile Group is working as a part-time advisor, one of the league-oriented private equity firms seeking ownership in NFL teams.

• ESPN also stated last week that Howell signed a secrecy agreement with NFL six months ago, which hidden the details of the January mediation decision from the players, including a discovery that the league officials urged the team owners to reduce the guaranteed player to reduce the compensation. The 61-page decision was published out of podcast on 24 June by Pablo Tore.

On Sunday, the Union’s Executive Committee said in a message sent to Hawl for membership, he said that “he has” established a deliberate process to carefully assess the issues that assess the issues raised and will not engage in a hurry to the decision. “

Recently late Wednesday night, two executive committee members gave a strong support for Howell’s leadership and vision for NFLPA in a joint interview with ESPN. “We felt great about this process,” one of them said. “We are 100 percent behind Lloyd.”