Dan Snyder is claiming that a disgruntled former employee helped wage a campaign against him that resulted in defamatory article about the Washington Football Team, according to a Federal District Court filing.

Snyder asserted that Mary-Ellen Blair, who worked for the team from 2013 to '17 as an executive assistant, took money to help spread damaging information about him.

The filing also stated that Blair "further directly offered or alluded to the availability of bribes to current employees of the Team."

Snyder had filed a defamation case on Friday against Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide, a company based in India, over what it said would be included about him in an upcoming Washington Post story. The Post article detailed allegations of sexual harassment by five former Washington Football Team employees. The Post did not report that Snyder was involved in any way other than as the team owner.

But before the story was released, the meaww.com news site reported that Snyder was allegedly involved in sex trafficking, tying him to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking underage girls.

Snyder is seeking $10 million in damages from the media company.