Former NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell resigned Thursday night after an outside investigator reportedly discovered Howell charged the union formultiple strip club visits, according to ESPN. Howell allegedly charged the union $738.82 on one receipt and another $2,426 during a separate strip club visit. The first receipt stems from an alleged visit to a strip club in Miami Gardens. On Nov. 2, 2023, Howell was reportedly picked up at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport at 10:26 p.m. He allegedly had that car drive him to an address in Miami Gardens, which turned out to be a strip club named Tootsie's Cabaret. Around 6 the following morning, that car allegedly drove Howell to his condo in Sunny Isles Beach. Howell reportedly submitted an expense totaling $738.82 to the union. One of the union's finance workers was curious about the cost of the ride, looked up the Miami Gardens address and discovered it was a strip club, per ESPN. That employee sent the request up the chain for review. The head of travel for the union reportedly forwarded the receipt and documents to union lawyers to review the situation, sources told ESPN. Howell allegedly submitted a similar expense over a year later. He reportedly charged the union $2,426 after taking two employees to Magic City strip club in Atlanta this past February. The purpose of the outing was reportedly listed as "Player Engagement Event to support & grow our Union" on the receipt. Howell reportedly encouraged one of the employees who attended the strip club to also submit an expense report. That employee filed for $736. Bob Stropp, a veteran labor lawyer, spoke to ESPN about the 2023 incident. Stropp called Howell's actions "horrible," among other things. "That's pretty horrible," said Stropp, 77, the former general counsel of the United Mine Workers of America. "That's unbelievable. I don't know how you get around that. It's hard to believe that anyone would be that stupid." It's not the first time Howell has allegedly come under fire due to a strip club expense report. In 2015, Howell and another employee at Booz Allen, where Howell worked at the time, reportedly racked up thousands of dollars in expenses during a visit to a strip club. The employee attempted to submit an expense report for that visit. That employee was fired and Howell was reportedly reprimanded. The incident reportedly occurred while Howell was a defendant in a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a Booz Allen partner. Details of that lawsuit came to light in an ESPN report Thursday. It was unclear whetherNFLPA members knewabout Howell's involvement in the sexual discrimination lawsuit when he was elected to be the next NFLPA executive director. Booz Allen eventually settled that lawsuit for an undisclosed sum, per ESPN. ESPN's report Thursday marked the fourth time this offseason Howell's actions as NFLPA executive director came under scrutiny. Journalists Mike Florio and Pablo Torre previously unearthedtwo grievance rulingsthe NFL and NFLPA worked to keep secret. One of those rulings foundevidence of collusionamong teams, a potentially explosive revelation that Howell allegedly not only worked to keep out of the public, but also may havetried to keep from players. After the first grievance filing came to light,Howell's consulting workwith The Carlyle Group also received attention. Howell began working with the company, which is an NFL-approved private equity firm seeking minority ownership in NFL franchises, prior to being elected by the NFLPA. Given the Carlyle Group's ties to the league, Howell's consulting role was seen as a conflict of interest. Howell was reportedly asked to resign from his position with The Carlyle Group before taking over as NFLPA executive director, but declined to do so. Despite the sexual discrimination lawsuit and his consulting work, Howell emerged as a finalist to take over for DeMaurice Smith as the NFLPA executive director. Howell was elected into that role in 2023 after a vote by the 32 player reps. In his position as NFLPA executive director, Howell made $3.6 million last year.