Front Office Sports writer AJ Perez has been all over the story of the Washington Commies’ alleged use of two accounting books to paint different pictures of the financial health of the organization. Now it looks like the Commies may have gone against their own distribution of wealth principles and not dividing ticket revenue equally:

Here is how ticket revenue is collected and dispersed, from the Perez story:

According to NFL bylaws, all teams are required to pass along 40% of ticket sales from each home game — minus ticket handling charges and taxes — to the league, which then disperses the funds to visiting teams. At least one person gave information in recent weeks to Congressional investigators that alleges the Commanders didn’t pass along the full 40%, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told FOS.

Ticket sales are the only part of local revenues that have to be shared among NFL owners. Teams don’t share other revenues — from parking to local sponsorship deals — with the other teams.

Ticket sales not only impact other teams, but also the players since ticket revenue is factored into overall league revenues that are used to come up with each year’s salary cap.

Dan Snyder has done a lot of bad shit and let a lot of bad shit happen during his watch, but this could be what finally does him in. You don’t become a billionaire by letting people steal from you.  Lets not pretend a lot of owners have the greatest moral compass. Remember “Jeans Friday”? I can guarantee you these guys are more upset Dan Snyder held ticket revenue money than a Washington Post piece. Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk.com says this could be the “death knell” if it’s true. Owners will defend workplace misconduct allegations to the death but there is a zero tolerance for withholding money from them. Not that it would’ve been life changing since the Commies had the second-worst attendance in the league.

I’d love to see Jeffrey Lurie’s face when he found out Dan Snyder was withholding money from him after his QB almost got squashed by his stadium in the middle of a playoff race: