Ex-NFLPA boss Howell's Strip Club costs sent to investigators

The former leader of the NFL Players Association, Lloyd Howell Jr., resigned after an external investigator commissioned by the union had received documents this week, which shows that he accused the union for two visits to Strip clubs, including a car service of 738.82 US dollar, which brought him from the airport to one of the clubs.

The documents are unionized spending reports and documents that ESPN stood out for hours before Howell, before howell stepped off abruptly on Thursday evening.

A receipt received by ESPN shows that Howell was picked up on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 10:26 p.m. by a car service at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in a limousine. The first stop of the car was in a nearby Miami Gardens' address.

Almost eight hours later, at 6 a.m., the Wowell car let off in its luxury owner apartment in Sunny Isles Beach, the receipt shows.

A financial worker from the Junge Union later noticed the exorbitant costs of the car service. The employee Googeled the address of Miami Gardens and found that it was Tootsie's cabaret.

The 76,000 square meter event location describes itself as the world's largest strip club “Full Nude No. 1” rated “.

The employee marked the receipt to the union's travel department for a higher degree of review, two people who were familiar with trade union operations said ESPN. The head of the Union Travel then forwarded the documents to compliance with lawyers from the union, the sources said.

More than a year later, Howell and two employees visited a strip club in Atlanta, as can be seen from the cost reports received by ESPN.

During this year's NFLPA summit on February 21, Howell accompanied two union employees to the Magic City Strip Club to contain an excursion with fees of 2,426 US dollars, including cash withdrawals between 200 and 525 US dollars, from a Club Automatic Automatic, Sources and Documents. They used two “VIP rooms”.

According to the expenditure report: The purpose of the Strip Club excursion: “Event for the engagement procedure to support and expand our union.”

The NFLPA summit is an annual event to promote the leadership between players and young union employees.

One of the employees who accompanied Howell have submitted output reports for this excursion, as the documents show. Howell instructed the employee to submit the cost reports, two sources that were familiar with the matter, said ESPN.

The employee stated in an issue report of March 23: “736 US dollars = This was the last amount that had closed the tab for both derived sections for our player members. This included food, alcoholic drinks, fees, taxes and tips.” The names of these players are not listed in receipts or reports.

Documents show that four cash withdrawals were marked with “warnings” that apparently relate to potential reimbursement.

Howell could not be reached immediately for a comment. A union spokesman rejected a statement.

Ronald C., a lawyer at Wilmer Hale, was hired by a special committee of players to examine Howell's activities. “Our work continues,” said a source near ESPN.

Federal labor laws are strict when it comes to the costs and reimbursement measures of a union. The laws aim to protect union members whose expenses finance all operations, in contrast to what is happening in a corporate environment.

Bob Stropp, a generally respected veteran Labor Layyer, said ESPN that the reimbursement of the car service is “the kind of sexy thing that the attention of the [U.S.] Department for Labor Department. “

“It's pretty terrible,” said Stropp, 77, the former General Counsel of the United Mine Workers of America. “This is incredible. I don't know how to avoid it. It is difficult to believe that someone would be so stupid.”

The NFLPA has its own strict guidelines for reimbursement of all kinds, but in particular for entertainment, former union officers say. A former Union employee said that there is no specific exclusions for event locations such as a strip club in the “Entertainment” category.

“But I don't think someone who sets off that is an optically good scenario,” said the former employee. “Against this background, this aspect of the directive should be clearly revised.”

Howell was elected trade union president in 2024 and paid 3.6 million US dollars last year. He has been living in Miami since 2019; Records show that in September 2019 he paid $ 6.8 million for an apartment with three bedrooms in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach. The building has “in-units garages in which owners are housed their valuable vehicles”. Like his neighbors in the building with 132 residential units, Howell has access to an elevator to provide his car directly to his residence.

Questions about spending for strip clubs have previously appeared in Howell's career. His former employer Booz Allen also interviewed him after a Strip Club visit to the company.

In 2015, Howell and a Senior Vice President visited a strip club in Manhattan, New York, where they achieved thousands of dollars for night entertainment, a former Booz Manager said to Espn. Afterwards, Howell's colleague requested reimbursement in a cost report that was referred to the compliance lawyers of the law firm.

The colleague was released and howell blamed, said the executive. At that time, Howell was a defendant in a sexual discrimination and retaliation, which was submitted by a partner of Booz Allen. Boooz Allen was – for an unknown sum – the case in which Howell and the company refused to lead the leadership of women and excluded them from certain career opportunities that were made available to men.

Another former Booz Allen manager told ESPN that the company was concerned about disciplining howell while the lawsuit was active. A year later, Booz Alle Howell promoted the Chief Financial Officer with the support of the CEO and the Carlyle Group executives.

In his resignation declaration on Thursday evening, Howell said, 59,: “It is clear that my leadership to distract the important work that NFLPA has driven every day. For this reason, I have informed the NFPA Executive Committee that I, as Executive Director of the NFLPA and the chair of NFL players, who should rely on the NFL players -Chairman can withdraw to the NFL players.

Howell's resignation was made and surprised some members of the 10-member executive committee of the NFLPA, who repeatedly tried to convince him not to leave the union during a long call on Thursday evening, as stated in this call.

The resignation took place after several recent reports from ESPN and the podcast “Pablo Torre found”:

• ESPN used to report on the sexual discrimination on Thursday due to Booz Allen and retribution measures in which Howell was involved and whether the players who voted for him were aware of the NFLPA.

• In May, ESPN reported that the FBI examined the Union's financial transactions and the MLB players in connection with a group license company of Multibillion dollar, OneTeam Partners. According to sources, the report triggered a special committee of the player union to stop Machen to check howell the activities of Howell as Executive Director.

• Last week, ESPN reported that Howell works as a paid part-time consultant of the Carlyle Group, one of the private equity companies approved by the league who have NFL teams.

• ESPN also reported last week that Howell made a confidentiality agreement with the NFL six months ago, in which the details of the referee's decision were hidden by players in January, including the fact that the league executives asked the team owners to reduce the guaranteed playback. The 61-page judgment was published by the Pablo Torre, who found Podcast on June 24th.

On Sunday, the Executive Committee of the Howell union supported in a message sent to the membership and said that they had “set up a deliberate process in order to carefully assess the problems raised and not to hurry up to a judgment”.

In a joint interview with ESPN, two members of the Executive Committee still gave a strong support from Howell's leadership and vision for the NFPA in a joint interview with ESPN. “We felt good in relation to the process,” said one of them. “We are 100 percent behind Lloyd.”