Another day, another name linked to Josh Harris’ bid to buy the Washington Commanders.
On Thursday, Sportico revealed two more names from the Harris group: Colombian billionaire Alejandro Santo Domingo and Morgan Properties CEO Mitchell Morgan.
On Friday, Giles Turner and Heather Perlberg of Bloomberg revealed that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is also a part of Harris’ bid to buy the Commanders. Schmidt’s net worth is $21.7 billion, according to Forbes, making him the wealthiest known member of the Harris group. Santo Domingo’s net worth is over $12 billion, while Harris is worth $7.7 billion and Mitchell Rales‘ net worth is $6.7 billion.
Schmidt was Google’s CEO from 2001-11, and he stepped down in 2011 but remains as one of the company’s largest individual stakeholders.
In another development from Thursday, the Commanders are reportedly lobbying the federal government to give control of the federal-owned RFK Stadium site to the D.C. government, clearing a path for the Commanders to build a new stadium in the District.
Interestingly enough, Schmidt has worked in an advisory role for the Defense Department.
Forbes initially reported last month that Harris had 17 minority investors. Thus far, Rales, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mark Ein, Santo Domingo, Morgan and Schmidt have been revealed as minority partners.
We’ll continue to follow this story.
