Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been linked to discussions surrounding the sale of minority stakes of the Washington Football Team. According to Front Office Sports, Bezos’ attorney had talks with the sports investment banking firm Moag & Co., who is helping sell 40% of the team’s ownership held by Dwight Schar, Fred Smith and Robert Rothman.
Bezos’ attorney’s name appeared in court documents in Washington majority owner Dan Snyder’s defamation lawsuit an Indiana media company MEA WorldWide. Snyder also claims that Schar was behind the online campaign intended to smear Snyder in an attempt to force him to sell the team.
Snyder’s lawyers wrote that John Moag, the founder of Moag & Co., had advance knowledge of MEA WorldWide’s “corrupt disinformation campaign by, among other things, spreading malicious lies” about Snyder.
Bezos reportedly has been interested in buying an NFL team for sometime. The mogul also has made an imprint in the Washington, DC Metro area in recently years. He purchased The Washington Post in 2013. In 2017, Arlington, Va. was selected as the second headquarters of Amazon.
It’s unclear how far the talks with Bezos’ attorney went with Moag and Co. However, it drives in the possibility that the Washington Football Team may be Bezos’ choice of NFL ownership.
Two California billionaires, Behdad Eghbali and Jose Feliciano, offered to purchase the minority stake of about. However, Snyder blocked Schar from selling his stake by using his right of first refusal.
