BETHESDA, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - This week, National Football League owners are expected to vote on the sale of the Washington Commanders.

It means Dan Snyder could soon be on his way out, but it doesn’t mean area football fans are done hearing about him altogether.

A former team employee, Jason Friedman, has filed a lawsuit against the Commanders as well as attorney John Brownlee, who has represented the team. The suit stems from Friedman’s closed-door testimony to Congress, during which he made allegations of "financial improprieties" committed by the team, including "the team’s improper withholding of revenue from the NFL, and its failure to return security deposits to many season ticket holders despite an obligation to do so."

Friedman’s lawsuit says the team responded by "repeatedly and publicly calling him a liar, accusing him of committing the federal crime of perjury, and falsely implying that he was terminated as part of the team’s sexual harassment scandal that was being widely reported in the press."

The lawsuit also accuses Brownlee of telling a local sports talk radio station that the team terminated Friedman "because he became the very toxic work environment that the team was trying to rid itself [of]."

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Brooklyn Law School Professor Jodi Balsam, a former NFL in-house counsel, told FOX 5 Monday that she doesn’t think Friedman’s civil suit will ever make it to a jury.

"I do think he has a good chance of getting some sort of pre-trial settlement out of the...

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