Overview

• New court papers detail counterclaims for defamation, civil conspiracy, tortious interference, breach of contract and, per one report, libel.
• The Jets seek monetary damages and attorneys’ fees and say they have also initiated arbitration against Elaine Chen and Larry Fitzpatrick.
• Exhibits include purported screenshots of messages and emails that the team argues reflect planning to send an anonymous July email about Elhai.
• The team says a former employee confessed to working with Fitzpatrick on the anonymous email and alleges 4,000 recently deleted texts on Fitzpatrick’s work phone along with explicit content and gambling activity.
• Chen denies any role in a conspiracy, says she was terminated because of her marriage to Fitzpatrick, and maintains her firing was retaliatory.