The Wall Street Journal: WWE inner examine finds ex-CEO Vince McMahon gave $5 million to Trump’s charity

Contributions totaling $5 million to Donald Trump’s gift in 2007 and 2009 were among $19.6 million in unrecorded association expenses Vince McMahon paid out before he stepped down from World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. amid bungle allegations, an inner house review found.

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 said that a roughly $20 million that came out of McMahon’s slot should have been disclosed, since a exchange benefited a association he ran. While a bulk of a payments went to women who indicted McMahon and another WWE executive of passionate misconduct, a association pronounced in a filings that a $5 million was separate to such allegations though didn’t state a purpose.

People informed with a house review pronounced a $5 million represented free donations to a now-dissolved Donald J. Trump Foundation in a same dual years that a then-real-estate developer done appearances during WWE televised events.

McMahon late as authority and CEO last month, finale his four-decade reign as a conduct of a association that he and his wife, Linda McMahon, built into wrestling’s biggest business.

An profession for WWE pronounced a payments to Trump should have been requisitioned as business losses since McMahon was a principal shareholder and a payments benefited a company. He declined to contend because a payments benefited WWE.

An stretched chronicle of this news appears on WSJ.com.

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