Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon is under federal criminal investigation as prosecutors try to determine if federal law was broken in conduct surrounding recent allegations of sex trafficking that have been made public in lawsuits, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Last week, the company, McMahon and a former WWE executive were sued by a former employee alleging those crimes.
25 against McMahon and former WWE executive John Laurinaitis, claiming she was 'the victim of physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault and trafficking at WWE.' McMahon disputed the allegations, saying in a statement last week: 'I stand by my prior statement that Ms. Grant’s lawsuit is replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred, and is a vindictive distortion of the truth.
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