Mueller writes report NFL paid him to write ...

Report shows NFL never saw Ray Rice video.

The NFL was deemed to have never seen the Ray Rice in-elevator video before the public saw it, according to findings released Thursday by an NFL-financed investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller.

"We found no evidence that anyone at the NFL had or saw the in-elevator video before it was publicly shown. We also found no evidence that a woman at the NFL acknowledged receipt of that video in a voicemail message on April 9, 2014," the report said.

Roger Goodell's assertion that no one at the NFL's league office had previous knowledge of the Ray Rice video was proved true by the Mueller report.

The Associated Press originally reported that a law enforcement official showed the AP the video and played for it a 12-second voice mail dated April 9 in which a woman verifies receipt of the video.

Although the findings supported commissioner Roger Goodell's assertion that the league had not seen the video that shows Rice, the former Baltimore Ravens running back, punching his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City elevator, the Mueller report did say the NFL could have done more to properly investigate the charge ...

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