Schar, Smith and Rothman currently own about 40 percent of the team. The Washington Post reported in November that a group of investors from California had offered $900 million for the ownership shares of Schar, Smith and Rothman. The potential buyers were Behdad Eghbali and José Feliciano — the billionaire co-founders of Clearlake Capital, a private equity firm based in Santa Monica — and Feliciano’s wife, Kwanza Jones, a singer, songwriter and philanthropist who grew up in the Washington area.
The debt waiver and pending buyouts of Schar, Smith and Rothman do not impact the NFL’s ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual harassment in the team’s workplace, which is being led by attorney Beth Wilkinson. Those are “two separate matters,” and the review of those claims is ongoing, league spokesman Brian McCarthy said.