TMZ Reporter to Goodell: How Come We Got Video with Just One Call?

‘We found out by one phone call — you guys have a whole legal department, can you explain that?’

GLEN: "You suspended Ray Rice after our video. Why didn’t you have the curiosity to go see — to go to the casino yourself?"
GOODELL: "Well, two things. We suspended Ray Rice originally after seeing the original video that was disclosed back in February. When the second video came out last week, that’s when we increased our discipline because that was inconsistent with the information we had. It was new information. One of the things that I said in my statement and I’ve said repeatedly here is that that is part of what we want to do with all of our experts, outside, internal, is try to figure out how should we investigate these issues? In the past, we have been almost completely reliant on working with law enforcement and cooperating with them. We do not want to interfere with a criminal investigation. In particular here when you’re dealing with a casino in New Jersey, there are even more restrictions because it’s overseen, I believe, by the attorney general. So we have to be very cautious in not interfering with a criminal investigation. But we’ll evaluate that. Should we do more to get that information? I would love to have seen that tape. Should we do more to get that information in the future? That’s a question I want these experts to do."
GLEN: "Mr. commissioner, we found out by one phone call. You guys have a whole legal department. Can you explain that? We found out by just one phone call."
GOODELL: "I can't explain how you got the information only you can do that."

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