NFL Turns Over Phone Records, Emails In Ray Rice Investigation

The NFL has reportedly turned over phone and email records in reference to the domestic abuse case of former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice pending an investigation.

A source told the Associated Press that over 500 employees working at the NFL turned over their phone and email records regarding Rice's case to a former FBI director, Robert S. Mueller, who is conducting an investigation of the events surrounding the Rice scandal.

The investigation is meant to determine if NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell misled the public regarding a security video that showed Rice punching and knocking out his wife, then fiancé, Janay Palmer in a hotel elevator earlier this year.

Investigators are reportedly collecting phone records to determine which member of the NFL staff confirmed the receipt of the surveillance tape back in April. Although Goodell is claiming that neither he or any of his staff saw the tape, an Atlantic City law enforcement official claims the NFL confirmed the receipt of the tape.

Goodell has previously said that he had no knowledge of the video's existence before it was released to the public earlier this year. An arbitrator decided this month that Rice should be reinstated to the NFL after he was dropped from the Baltimore Ravens and indefinitely suspended from the league.

"We don't agree with the arbitrator's ruling,'' Goodell told ABC News following the ruling that reinstated Rice. "But we accept it."

Goodell and fellow NFL officials have agreed to comply with the investigation into Rice's domestic abuse scandal.