Federal prosecutors leave a criminal investigation into former WWE Chief Vince McMahon, says his lawyer

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Federal prosecutors have finished their criminal investigation into whether the former CEO and president of World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon, tried to cover up the accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior with multiple employees, said his lawyer on Tuesday.

“We have been in a constant communication with the government … and we understand, without ambiguity, that the investigation has finally completed and will not lead to charges,” said McMahon’s lawyer Robert W. Allen, in a statement.

He New York Post The news reported for the first time on Wednesday.

The apparent termination of the investigation occurs less than a week after a large jury and a federal court of appeals examined whether supposedly paid more than $ 10 million in exchange for signing non -dissemination agreements.

McMahon and his former lawyer allegedly hid the company’s accusations and payments, including sharing “the agreement executed by text instead of an email with the express purpose of avoiding the company obtaining knowledge of it,” according to the Court’s ruling on Friday on Friday past.

Although neither McMahon nor the lawyer are explicitly appointed in the ruling, the description coincides with him and a source confirmed to CNN that McMahon is the executive director in question.

Despite the new judicial documents, Allen said that the matter is now closed and that the new presentation is “simply the result of an appeal of a procedural issue that was argued five months ago.”

In 2022, The Wall Street Journal He informed that McMahon had paid more than $ 12 million to Four women previously used by WWE for 16 years Silence the statements of inappropriate sexual behavior. This included a former WWE fighter who said McMahon had forced her to perform oral sex, only to degrade and eventually choose not to renew her contract after she rejected subsequent sexual advances.

The news followed a separate Magazine report That the WWE Board was investigating McMahon for silently accepting a $ 3 million agreement to a former employee, finally one of the four mentioned in the history of the Journal, with whom he supposedly had an adventure. At that time, McMahon promised to cooperate with research and “accept the results and the result of the investigation, whatever.”

In January 2023The Journal reported that McMahon had signed a multi -million dollar settlement with the first woman to arbitrate the World Federation of Fight, which became WWE in 2002, after the former employee accused him of rape in a letter. A McMahon lawyer said that “he denies and always denied” sexual aggression, specifying that he had “resolved the case only to avoid the cost of litigation.”

Another former WWE employee who had worked at the company’s headquarters sued McMahon in January 2024accusing him of sexual aggression, traffic and physical abuse. A McMahon spokesman at that time described the demand as “full of lies, obscene cases that never occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the truth.”

The former employee of the January 2024 demand is not appointed in the new ruling, but a description of the agreement of the second victim coincides with the reports of his account.

McMahon resigned from his double WWE roles in 2022, only for Return in January 2023 as executive president of the Board. In September of that year, the company became TKO after WWE fusion with rival Network UFC. In January 2024, after the accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, which McMahon denied, He quickly resigned Its executive president and director of the Board Rolles in TKO.

In June 2024, a federal judge ruled that the Government had established a “probable cause to believe” that McMahon and one of his former lawyers had violated the law when “the internal controls (of the company) eluded and created false books and records ” The new presentation of the Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

In October, McMahon and his wife Linda – Secretary of Choice of President Trump for Education – were defendant By five former “Boys” of the WWE for allegedly allowing a former ringlist to use their position to sexually exploit children up to 12 years since the 1980s. Vince and Linda McMahon have denied the accusations.

In separate legal problems, last month McMahon paid $ 1.7 million To settle positions of the Bag and Securities Commission related to its alleged breach of properly revealing $ 19.6 million in unregistered expenses to the Board of the Company.

McMahon promoted the SEC agreement as claiming its innocence maintained after years of accusations and reports.

“There was never anything else in this that the minor accounting errors regarding some personal payments that I made several years ago while it was CEO of WWE,” McMahon said in a January statement. “I am delighted to be able to leave all this behind.”

WWE and TKO did not respond to comments requests.