Sworn deposition testimony from WWE President Nick Khan has revealed that the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation involving Vince McMahon included possible violations of sex trafficking statutes, directly contradicting McMahon’s January 2025 public statement characterizing the entire federal inquiry as a matter of minor accounting errors.
Khan’s deposition was taken in December 2025 as part of an ongoing shareholder merger lawsuit against former WWE board members in the Delaware Chancery Court, with POST Wrestling initiating a process to challenge the confidential treatment of certain materials that led to the testimony becoming public.
When asked under oath by plaintiff attorney Edward Timlin about when he became aware the DOJ was examining matters beyond accounting issues, Khan was direct.
“When the search warrants for the devices were served upon Vince, Brad Blum, and Vince’s personal assistant and when those warrants were sent from Vince’s lawyers to WWE’s lawyers, and they were read to me and it included sex trafficking is when I was aware of it,” Khan testified.
Khan noted in multiple instances across his day-long deposition that he was aware sex trafficking was among the statutes the government was examining. He also confirmed that DOJ prosecutors asked him about sex crimes during his own government interview, in addition to questions about the recording of payments. When shown a grand jury subpoena and told it contained both securities statutes and sex trafficking statutes, Khan acknowledged he subsequently learned that sex trafficking statutes were among the violations under investigation.
“I certainly did learn that that was the case,” Khan said.
Khan’s testimony also speaks to the awareness of McMahon’s own legal team. Khan testified that search warrants indicating sex trafficking was under consideration were sent from McMahon’s lawyers at Kirkland and Ellis to WWE’s lawyers, meaning McMahon’s attorneys had that government documentation years before his January 2025 statement describing the matter as involving only accounting concerns.
McMahon’s January 2025 statement, issued following a settlement with the SEC in which he was ordered to pay a $400,000 penalty and repay WWE $1.3 million, read in part: “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.”
Separately, former WWE employee Janel Grant, who filed a civil lawsuit against McMahon and WWE in January 2024 alleging sexual assault and sex trafficking, recently posted to Instagram what appears to be a letter from the FBI’s Victim Notification System dated May 23, 2023 identifying her as a possible victim of a crime in an active federal investigation conducted by the FBI’s New York office. Grant’s post states she received multiple similar letters between May 2023 and December 2025. POST Wrestling confirmed the Instagram account is legitimately controlled by Grant. On Thursday, Grant also posted what appears to be a separate email from FBI New York dated May 30, 2025.
McMahon was never indicted for any crime related to the investigation, which spanned from approximately 2022 to 2025 and concluded without charges. McMahon has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct made against him. Khan and other former WWE board members are co-defendants in the shareholder merger lawsuit and deny the suit’s key allegations.
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