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Former Raiders Controller Stands By Her Statement Of No Financial Impropriety After Owner Davis Cites ‘Accounting Irregularities’ For Team Biz Execs Leaving In July

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By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

For the first time, Raiders owner Mark Davis this week publicly discussed the reason why three team business executive staffers left in July.

Davis cited “accounting irregularities” as the factor behind former Raiders President Marc Badain, Chief Financial Officer Ed Villanueva and Controller Araxie Grant leaving in July. Davis spoke to The Athletic about the “irregularities,” but didn’t specify the exact financial issues.

Grant, a veteran CPA, told LVSportsBiz.com Friday that she continues to stand by her statement in August  that she was not involved in any financial impropriety.

Here’s Grant’s statement from two months ago:

Grant started in December 2019 and left in July.

It’s been a turbulent three months for Davis, who said he was blindsided by former coach Jon Gruden’s toxic emails, which led to Gruden’s resignation this month. It’s rare for an NFL team to lose both a team president and head coach within only a few months of their resignations.

Raiders owner Mark Davis. Photo: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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