A federal appeals court ruled that former WWE CEO Vince McMahon wrongly withheld documents from a grand jury investigating how he handled multimillion-dollar settlements with two female employees who accused him of sexual abuse. The court upheld a lower court ruling that the documents were not protected by attorney-client privilege because of an exception for 'crime or fraud.'
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The appellate panel said that while McMahon’s lawyer submitted many materials in response to a grand jury subpoena, they also submitted a log of 208 documents that were being withheld under assertions of attorney-client privilege.
In January, McMahon said in a statement that “nearly three years of investigation by different governmental agencies” into his actions had ended. The statement came as the federal Securities and Exchange Commission announced“In the end, there was never anything more to this than minor accounting errors with regard to some personal payments that I made several years ago while I was CEO of WWE,” the statement said. “I’m thrilled that I can now put all this behind me.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who make sexual assault allegations unless they come forward publicly, which Grant did.
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