Vince McMahon's lawyer says feds ended probe into ex-WWE boss' alleged hush-money payments to female employees

Federal prosecutors person reportedly dropped an probe into Vince McMahon, the arguable wrestling promoter and the estranged hubby of Donald Trump's prime for Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon.

'This is simply the effect of an entreaty of a procedural substance that was argued 5 months ago,' 1 of McMahon's attorneys, Robert W. Allen, told The New York Post. 'We person been successful accordant connection with the authorities since that clip and understand, with nary ambiguity, that the probe has definitively concluded and volition not effect successful charges.'

Despite Allen's statement, determination stay questions astir the scope of the national probe and the circumstantial reasons it was brought to a abrupt end – if that is, indeed, what happened.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to McMahon's attorneys, Justin Department spokespeople and attorneys of Janel Grant, 1 erstwhile WWE worker presently suing the wrestling promoter successful national tribunal implicit allegations of intersexual battle and enactment trafficking. McMahon has repeatedly denied Grant's allegations. 

A twelvemonth ago, The Wall Street Journal reported McMahon was being investigated by national prosecutors implicit allegations of 'sexual assault' and 'sex trafficking.' However, a national three-judge sheet with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals gave a precise antithetic content of that national probe successful Friday's ruling. In fact, Friday's ruling makes nary notation to enactment trafficking.

Without naming McMahon, the ruling refers to 'the taxable of an ongoing expansive assemblage investigation' and whether helium 'engaged successful a transgression strategy to circumvent the company's interior accounting controls' to 'conceal aggregate allegations of intersexual misconduct.'

Sources acquainted with the lawsuit told The Post the unnamed CEO being referred to successful the ruling is, indeed, McMahon.

The sheet ruled Friday that an unnamed erstwhile lawyer for the ex-CEO was incorrect to withhold documents from the expansive assemblage amid the probe into alleged hush-money payments with 2 pistillate employees accusing him of intersexual misconduct.

Case documents were not protected by attorney-client privilege, the judges ruled, due to the fact that of an objection for 'crime oregon fraud,' and truthful should person been shared with the court.

If the national probe has been abandoned by prosecutors, arsenic Allen is claiming, it would travel arsenic a large surprise. In June, national justice Valerie Caproni ruled the national authorities 'established probable origin to believe' McMahon and 1 of his erstwhile lawyers broke the law.

Specifically, Caproni cited grounds successful her June ruling that McMahon and his lawyer 'circumvented [the Company's] interior controls and created mendacious books and records,' 'concealed the Victims' claims and colony agreements from [the Company],' and 'made mendacious and misleading statements to the Company's auditors.'

Caproni and the three-judge appellate sheet person some ruled that McMahon's conversations with lawyer were not taxable to attorney-client privilege.

Friday's ruling revealed the appeals tribunal has examined files showing McMahon's unnamed erstwhile lawyer 'specifically instructed' him to sermon payoffs 'via substance alternatively of email for the explicit intent of avoiding the Company gaining cognition of it.'

There had besides been a Security and Exchange Commission probe into the payments worthy a reported $10.5 million. However, the SEC announced successful the last days of the Biden medication it settled the civilian claims with McMahon implicit his nonaccomplishment to disclose payments to the WWE and its genitor company, TKO.

McMahon famously resigned from TKO successful January of 2024 after Grant sued him implicit allegations of intersexual maltreatment and enactment trafficking.

Grant claims she was pressured to permission the WWE  and motion a  $3 cardinal nondisclosure statement with McMahon. Her suit aims to person that statement declared invalid, saying McMahon paid conscionable $1 million. 

The $3 cardinal colony is mentioned successful Friday's appellate tribunal ruling, on with different $7.5 cardinal colony the promoter allegedly made with different erstwhile employee.

Last week, long-time WWE Brock Lesnar was named arsenic a suspect successful an amended ailment successful the ongoing civilian case.

The filing includes caller disturbing allegations against McMahon and different members of the wrestling company, naming Lesnar arsenic the wrestler helium allegedly enticed into staying nether declaration by utilizing Grant arsenic a 'sexual pawn.'

The ailment says successful 2021, McMahon was embroiled successful continued discussions with Lesnar implicit a instrumentality to WWE erstwhile helium offered her to the wrestler and told her to make personalized intersexual contented for a WWE superstar, the ailment alleges.

According to the suit, McMahon shared explicit photos with Lesnar and told Grant: 'He likes what helium sees.'

Then, allegedly aft Lesnar agreed his caller WWE contract, McMahon is said to person sent Grant a connection successful August 2021, telling her 'that portion of the woody was f***ing U.'

The ailment had antecedently elaborate the allegations but had not named Lesnar, alternatively citing an anonymous fighter. The Wall Street Journal had antecedently identified the wrestler successful question arsenic Lesnar.

Representatives for Lesnar person not responded to a petition for comment. DailyMail.com has besides contacted WWE for comment.

An lawyer for McMahon told DailyMail.com: 'As expected, the projected amended ailment is thing much than the latest publicity stunt successful an ongoing smear campaign. It is filled with hopeless falsehoods from a squad that continues to disregard the instrumentality and the truth.'

In October, Grants attorneys sued Dr. Carlon Colker successful Connecticut, wherever she claims she was drugged by the doc with chartless substances aft being referred to the session by nary different than McMahon.

Grant seeks to compel Colker and the clinic, Peak Wellness, to crook implicit her physics aesculapian and billing records arsenic good arsenic immoderate messages betwixt McMahon and the doc concerning herself.

McMahon, who was allegedly successful regular interaction with Colker, was provided entree to Grant's backstage aesculapian records and her treatments, according to the lawsuit.

Colker has denied the allegations.

In her January filing, Grant claimed McMahon defecated connected her during a threesome and forcefully penetrated her with enactment toys, which helium named aft his wrestlers.

She besides alleged that McMahon and different WWE enforcement locked her successful a country astatine the WWE's Stamford, Connecticut office successful June of 2021 and took turns sexually assaulting her during the enactment day.

McMahon is additionally accused of trafficking Grant to different men and sharing nude photographs of the plaintiff.

Grant is seeking unspecified damages from McMahon, who has repeatedly denied her allegations.