Federal prosecutors drop criminal probe into ex-WWE boss Vince McMahon, his lawyer says
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Federal prosecutors have ended their criminal investigation into whether former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and chairman Vince McMahon tried to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct with multiple former employees, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors have ended their criminal investigation into whether former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and chairman Vince McMahon tried to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct with multiple former employees, his lawyer said Tuesday. “We have been in consistent communication with the government … and understand, with no ambiguity, that the investigation has definitively concluded and will not result in charges,” McMahon’s attorney Robert W. Allen said in a statement. The New York Post first reported the news on Wednesday. The investigation’s apparent termination comes less than a week after a grand jury and a federal appeals court examined whether WWE founder McMahon committed a crime by hiding allegations of sexual misconduct from two former female employees — whom he allegedly paid more than $10 million in exchange for signing nondisclosure agreements. McMahon and his former lawyer allegedly hid the allegations and payments from the company, including sharing “the executed agreement via text instead of email for the express purpose of avoiding the Company gaining knowledge of it,” according to the court ruling last Friday. While neither McMahon nor the attorney are explicitly named in the ruling, the description matches him and a source confirmed to CNN that McMahon is indeed the chief executive in question.
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