The NFL is insisting it has no evidence the video of Ray Rice punching his fiancee in the face in an Atlantic City casino elevator was delivered and received by the league office in April.
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A report from the Associated Press on Thursday said NFL head of security Jeff Miller was mailed the surveillance video with the note saying, “Ray Rice elevator video. You have to see it. It’s terrible.”
Miller issued a statement on later on Thursday denying he received the copy of the video or that he had seen it prior to the video being made public by TMZ on Sept. 8.
Via Nancy Armour of USA Today, the league said it had no evidence that the video was delivered to its headquarters.
"“Our office has found absolutely no evidence to support the claim of the anonymous ‘law enforcement source’ that he sent a video to us or that he received a telephone call to his ‘disposable cell phone’ from an unidentified female using an NFL line,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy said."
A source from the AP said he received a voicemail from an unidentified woman from the league office confirming receipt of the video.
“Since the NFLPA and NFL have launched separate investigations into the league and the Ravens’ handling of Ray Rice’s case, I want to make a few things clear. No one from the NFL ever asked me for the inside-elevator video. I mailed it anonymously to Jeff Miller because he’s [the] head of security. I attached a note saying: ‘Ray Rice elevator video. You have to see it. It’s terrible.’ I provided a number for a disposable cellphone and asked for confirmation that it was received. I knew there was a possibility Mr. Miller may not get the video, but I hoped it would land in the right hands.”
With former FBi director Robert Mueller leading an investigation into the investigation of the Ray Rice video, it would appear the answer is somehow going to have to come from the AP source.
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