Amid the ongoing scandal surrounding the NFL Players Association, Lloyd Howell Jr.—who resigned from his role as the union's executive director last Thursday—has now also stepped down from the Carlyle Group, according to ESPN's Don Van Natta.
Howell Jr. was serving as a consultant for the private equity firm, which was recently added to a list of approved groups able to seek minority ownership stakes in NFL franchises. Understandably, his association with the firm caused conflict-of-interest concerns. Van Natta added on X (formerly Twitter) that a spokesman for the Group “refused to say when Howell resigned and why.”
