The lawyer of former Arizona Cardinals executive Terry McDonough has levied some serious allegations at his client’s old employer.
Appearing on Doug Franz Unplugged, Mike Caspino claimed that the Cardinals covered up a violation of the terms of then-general manager Steve Keim’s five-week suspension for DUI in 2018.
“Caspino explained that the team’s position in McDonough’s arbitration proceeding was that former Cardinals executive Mike Disner distributed burner phones for use in communicating with Keim during his suspension and that, once owner Michael Bidwill became aware of it, he immediately gathered the devices,” Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio wrote.
“But here’s a twist. Caspino said that McDonough still has his burner phone. Caspino also said that he offered to give the phone to NFL general counsel Jeff Pash, and that Pash didn’t want it.”
Caspino also claimed that both the Cardinals and the Detroit Lions (Disner’s current employer) fought to keep Disner from being questioned under oath in McDonough’s lawsuit, filed earlier this month.
An NFL arbiter previously awarded McDonough $3 million after finding that the Cardinals and owner Michael Bidwill defamed the former executive in a statement issued last year, accusing McDonough of abusing his wife and neglecting his disabled adult daughter.
In the same podcast appearance, Caspino accused Bidwill of being “a horrible person” and “worse than Dan Snyder,” the disgraced former owner of the Washington Commanders.