SAN JOSE, Calif. — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league hasn’t begun investigating emails between New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, choosing to first “understand the facts” of the exchanges.
Goodell was pressed multiple times by reporters about emails between Tisch and Epstein that were among three million documents released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. The documents — which discussed interactions with various women — were drawn from multiple investigations into the disgraced billionaire financier, who was arrested in July of 2019 and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Epstein subsequently died by suicide one month later in his New York City jail cell while awaiting trial.
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Asked if the league was probing the interactions between Tisch and Epstein and considering discipline for the Giants co-owner, Goodell said during his pre-Super Bowl news conference that the league was aware of the emails but had not yet advanced to the point of an investigation.
“You may be getting ahead of yourself on the second part,” Goodell said of the consideration of discipline for Tisch. “We are going to look at all the facts. We are going to look at the context of those and try to understand that — we will look at how that falls under the [NFL’s personal conduct] policy. But let’s get the facts first.”
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