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Time of India
12 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Not everyone turned on Vince McMahon— WWE Stars still praise him amid allegations!
विंस मैकमोहन Vince McMahon is gone from WWE , but not forgotten by those who are still close to him. Vince McMahon became one of the most prominent figures in the business world. His most notable achievement was transforming a regional wrestling promotion he bought from his father into a global giant we know today as WWE. However, he left the company in 2024 after major allegations by former employee Janel Grant. Despite the seriousness of the issue, there are reportedly many within the industry who have not changed their opinion about McMahon to this date. What is the perception about Vince McMahon among those he worked closely with? Sports Illustrated journalist Justin Barrasso recently reported on McMahon's perspective within the wrestling industry. According to him, the former WWE Chairman and CEO is still in high regard among wrestlers who possibly worked with him during his time as the company's frontrunner. He said, 'Speaking with wrestlers off-the-record, there is a great deal of support for McMahon, as many note that McMahon is still held in high regard.' Vince McMahon's reputation did take a hit after the lawsuit filed by Janel Grant became public. Despite that, superstars like John Cena , Natalya, Carmella, and others spoke highly of the boss and credited him for their success in the wrestling business. Elsewhere, McMahon has been busy setting up his new company, '14th&I..' Barasso in the same report also stated that fans should not expect it to produce scripted content. 'Those with inside knowledge are not sold on the idea that McMahon's investment firm, 14TH & I, is going to suddenly develop television shows or movies, a process that generally takes years to materialize' , said Barasso. Moreover, there have been heavy rumors circulating about McMahon possibly looking to purchase WWE's partner promotion, TNA Wrestling, which signed a multi-year deal with the Stamford-based company this year for talent exchanges and crossover matches. Regarding his lawsuit against Janel Grant, the former WWE Chairman is still under federal investigation. Despite being distanced by WWE's parent company, TKO Group Holdings, Vince McMahon looks to be commanding major respect for his contributions to the world of professional wrestling. Also read: The Undertaker's Role in WWE may be changing — And It can be big! Game On Season 1 kicks off with Sakshi Malik's inspiring story. Watch Episode 1 here
Sunday World
21 hours ago
- Business
- Sunday World
Barman arrested in Dublin accused of possessing €1mill in crime proceeds
GNECB Detective Ciaran Ronan told Judge Michele Finan that he arrested the accused this morning in Dublin A barman faces trial for deceiving multiple individuals in Ireland and possessing €1 million in crime proceeds following a Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) probe. The funds were allegedly held from 2010 to 2013 in multiple bank accounts under various names. Kevin McMahon, 51, with an address at Calle Vincente Inglada, Alicante, Spain, faced 130 charges when he appeared at Dublin District Court today on 131 charges. There were 21 charges under Section 6 of the Theft and Fraud Act for deception of 18 people about their financial interests at an unknown location in the State. Kevin McMahon He also had 110 money laundering section 7 of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 for possessing, handling or acquiring sums ranging from €1,000 to €300,025 in several banks or financial institutions with accounts under different names. GNECB Detective Ciaran Ronan told Judge Michele Finan that he arrested the accused this morning in Dublin after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) authorised charging him. The DPP has directed trial on indictment in the Circuit Court and that Mr McMahon could be sent forward for sentencing on a signed plea should that arise. Judge Finan raised the issue of providing disclosure to the defence. Solicitor Michael French told the court that prosecutors must prepare a book of evidence for his client. It must be served before granting a trial order. Judge Finan also noted that a co-accused was expected to come before the court on June 30, and she adjourned Mr McMahon's case to that date. Mr McMahon remained silent during the hearing but was granted legal aid. There was no objection to bail, but the judge warned that he must get court approval to change his address. Kevin McMahon News in 90 Seconds - June 19th
Sunday World
a day ago
- Sport
- Sunday World
Shamed ex-WWE chief Vince McMahon in bid to buy Conor McGregor-owned company
Founded in 2018, the bareknuckle boxing organisation is part-owned by McGregor who now frequently appears at BKFC events Former WWE boss Vince McMahon, who had faced allegations of sexual abuse, attempted to return to sports promotion by trying to purchase a company part-owned by Conor McGregor. McMahon had turned WWE from a family business into a global brand before he quit after he was accused of paying millions to former employees to silence claims of sexual misconduct. It was, as TalkSPORT reports, a spectacular fall from grace for the man who transformed the wrestling industry into a billion-dollar juggernaut. Now, however, it has been reported how McMahon made a quiet bid to re-enter the sporting promotion arena though the acquisition of a controlling interest in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC). Founded in 2018, the bareknuckle boxing organisation is part-owned by Conor McGregor who now frequently appears at BKFC events. According to a report by Sports Illustrated, although McMahon's offer was ultimately unsuccessful, David Feldman, BKFC's founder and president, confirmed he 'was very serious to do business.' Vince McMahon and Conor McGregor News in 90 Seconds - June 19th It was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in 2022 that McMahon had paid more than $12 million to four women formerly employed by WWE over 16 years. One former WWE wrestler claimed McMahon had coerced her into performing oral sex, and when she declined subsequent sexual advances she was demoted and her contract not renewed. A separate Journal report claimed that WWE's board was looking into claims he had made a $3 million settlement to a former staffer with whom he allegedly had an affair. At the time, McMahon pledged he would cooperate with the investigation and 'accept the findings and outcome of the investigation, whatever they are.' In January 2023, the Journal reported McMahon had agreed a multimillion-dollar settlement with the first woman to referee the World Wrestling Federation — which became WWE in 2002 — after she accused him of rape in a letter. Conor McGregor According to an attorney for McMahon, he 'denies and always has denied' the sexual assault, and that he had 'settled the case solely to avoid the cost of litigation'. Another ex-WWE employee who had worked at the company's headquarters sued McMahon in January of last year, accusing him of sexual assault, trafficking, and physical abuse. A spokesperson for McMahon at the time described the lawsuit as 'replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the truth.' McMahon resigned from his dual WWE roles in 2022, but returned in January 2023 as executive chairman of the board. The company became TKO after WWE's merger with rival network UFC in September of that year. In January of last year, in the wake of the sexual misconduct allegations, which McMahon denied, he resigned his executive chairman and board director roles at TKO. A federal judge ruled in June 2024 that the government had established 'probable cause to believe' that McMahon and one of his former lawyers had broken the law when they 'circumvented (the company's) internal controls and created false books and records.' In October, McMahon and his wife Linda, President Trump's choice for Education Secretary, denied allegations they allowed a former ringside announcer to use his position to sexually exploit children as young as 12 starting in the 1980s, after they were sued by five former WWE 'Ring Boys'. However, the New York Post reported on Wednesday that federal prosecutors have ended their criminal investigation into whether McMahon tried to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct with multiple former employees. McMahon's attorney Robert W Allen said in a statement: 'We have been in consistent communication with the government … and understand, with no ambiguity, that the investigation has definitively concluded and will not result in charges.' The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, known as the BKFC, was founded by Feldman in April 2018, with McGregor becoming a part-owner in April 2024. At the time, Feldman said: 'I think it's just going to move the needle tremendously. We're going to do a lot of big things, we're going to open up a lot of new markets. 'Look, we're partners with Conor McGregor. Everybody in the combat sports world, everybody in the world, knows who that guy is.' The promotion features several ex-UFC fighters, with Mike Perry, Eddie Alvarez and Luke Rockhold all having featured in past events.
Miami Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Education Department reinstates some research and data activities
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has repeatedly said that the February and March cancellations and firings at her department cut not only the "fat" but also into some of the "muscle" of the federal role in education. So, even as she promises to dismantle her department, she is also bringing back some people and restarting some activities. Court filings and her own congressional testimony illuminate what this means for the agency as a whole, and for education research in particular. McMahon told a U.S. House committee last month she rehired 74 employees out of the roughly 2,000 who were laid off or agreed to separation packages. A court filing earlier this month says the agency will revive about a fifth of research and statistics contracts killed earlier this year, at least for now, though that doesn't mean the work will look exactly as it did before. The Trump administration disclosed in a June 5 federal court filing in Maryland that it either has or is planning to reinstate 20 of 101 terminated contracts to comply with congressional statutes. More than half of the reversals will restart 10 regional education laboratories that the Trump administration had said were engaged in "wasteful and ideologically driven spending," but had been very popular with state education leaders. The reinstatements also include an international assessment, a study of how to help struggling readers, and Datalab, a web-based data analysis tool for the public. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Even some of the promised reinstatements are uncertain because the Education Department plans to put some of them up for new bids (see table below). That process could take months and potentially result in smaller contracts with fewer studies or hours of technical assistance. These research activities were terminated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before McMahon was confirmed by the Senate. The Education Department's disclosure of the reinstatements occurred a week after President Donald Trump bid farewell to Musk in the Oval Office and on the same day that the Trump-Musk feud exploded on social media. The Education Department press office said it had no comment beyond what was disclosed in the legal brief. Education researchers, who are suing the Trump administration to restore all of its previous research and statistical activities, were not satisfied. Elizabeth Tipton, president of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) said the limited reinstatement is "upsetting." "They're trying to make IES as small as they possibly can," she said, referring to the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's research and data arm. SREE and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) are suing McMahon and the Education Department in the Maryland case. The suit asks for a temporary reinstatement of all the contracts and the rehiring of IES employees while the courts adjudicate the broader constitutional issue of whether the Trump administration violated congressional statutes and exceeded its executive authority. The 20 reinstatements were not ordered by the court, and in some instances, the Education Department is voluntarily restarting only a small slice of a research activity, making it impossible to produce anything meaningful for the public. For example, the department said it is reinstating a contract for operating the What Works Clearinghouse, a website that informs schools about evidence-based teaching practices. But, in the legal brief, the department disclosed that it is not planning to reinstate any of the contracts to produce new content for the site. Related: Education researchers sue Trump administration, testing executive power In the brief, the administration admitted that congressional statues mention a range of research and data collection activities. But the lawyers argued that the legislative language often uses the word may instead of must, or notes that evaluations of education programs should be done "as time and resources allow." "Read together, the Department has wide discretion in whether and which evaluations to undertake," the administration lawyers wrote. The Trump administration argued that as long as it has at least one contract in place, it is technically fulfilling a congressional mandate. For example, Congress requires that the Education Department participate in international assessments. That is why it is now restarting the contract to administer the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), but not other international assessments that the country has participated in, such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The administration argued that researchers didn't make a compelling case that they would be irreparably harmed if many contracts were not restarted. "There is no harm alleged from not having access to as-yet uncreated data," the lawyers wrote. One of the terminated contracts was supposed to help state education agencies create longitudinal data systems for tracking students from pre-K to the workforce. The department's brief says that states, not professional associations of researchers, should sue to restore those contracts. Related: DOGE's death blow to education studies In six instances, the administration said it was evaluating whether to restart a study. For example, the legal brief says that because Congress requires the evaluation of literacy programs, the department is considering a reinstatement of a study of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program. But lawyers said there was no urgency to restart it because there is no deadline for evaluations in the legislative language. In four other instances, the Trump administration said it wasn't feasible to restart a study, despite congressional requirements. For example, Congress mandates that the Education Department identify and evaluate promising adult education strategies. But after terminating such a study in February, the Education Department admitted that it is now too difficult to restart it. The department also said it could not easily restart two studies of math curricula in low-performing schools. One of the studies called for the math program to be implemented in the first year and studied in the second year, which made it especially difficult to restart. A fourth study the department said it could not restart would have evaluated the effectiveness of extra services to help teens with disabilities transition from high school to college or work. When DOGE pulled the plug on that study, those teens lost those services too. Contact staff writer Jill Barshay at 212-678-3595, jillbarshay.35 on Signal, or barshay@ This story about the reinstatement of education statistics and research was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Proof Points and other Hechinger newsletters. The post Education Department reinstates some research and data activities appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
NY's Native American logo ban turned over to DOJ as Trump admin fights to save Massapequa Chiefs
New York State's ban on Native American logos was referred to federal prosecutors Tuesday after the Trump administration enthusiastically jumped in to save the name of the Massapequa Chiefs on Long Island. US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote a fire letter referring the 'absurd' issue to the Department of Justice in a lifeline to the Massapequa after New York State refused to voluntarily dissolve its policy on an offer from the department's Office for Civil Rights. 'Both the New York Department of Education and the Board of Regents violated federal antidiscrimination law and disrespected the people of Massapequa by implementing an absurd policy,' said McMahon, who visited the Long Island High School in May. 5 Sec. of Education Linda McMahon is taking the Massapequa Chiefs logo issues to the Department of Justice, calling New York's attempt to remove it 'absurd.' Heather Khalifa for the NY Post She torched the ban — enacted in 2023 — on Native American logos and imagery for public schools during a May visit to the Long Island school, saying it was discriminatory because it only applied to names and logos of one ethnicity. 'You've got the Huguenots, we've got the Highlanders, we've got the Scotsman. Why is that not considered in any way racist?' she asked in the gym surrounded by students. 5 Sec. of Education Linda McMahon toured Massapequa High School in May. Heather Khalifa for the NY Post McMahon brought the case to the DOJ as a Title VI civil rights violation, which was an 'unlawful attempt to ban mascots and logos that celebrate Native American history,' according to her office. Initially, the state Board of Regents and the state education department were twice offered a resolution agreement, which would have allowed them to voluntarily withdraw from the ban or risk a referral to the DOJ. Both rejected the offers, her office said. 'Both of these entities continue to disrespect the people of Massapequa by refusing to come into compliance with the Office for Civil Rights' proposed agreement to rectify their violations of civil rights law,' said McMahon. 'We will not allow New York state to silence the voices of Native Americans, and discriminatorily choose which history is acceptable to promote or erase.' 5 The town has aggressively fought to keep its Chiefs name. Heather Khalifa for the NY Post Massapequa has been involved in lengthy legal action supported by the Native American Guardians Association to retain its Chiefs logo. The district would have to spend $1 million to phase out the team name, according to school board president Kerry Wachter. 'This is a school that really takes its education seriously, and they're incredibly, incredibly behind their school, behind their Chiefs,' McMahon told The Post while in Massapequa last month. 'I think this is wrong — what's happening at Massapequa, to take away this incredible mascot and emblem of Chiefs.' Other Native American-named districts on Long Island that had unsuccessfully sued New York are now allocating massive funds to replace their mascots and logos — most shockingly, the Connetquot which said rebranding from the Thunderbirds will cost $23 million. 5 Sec. of Education Linda McMahon criticized that the logo ban applies only to Native American culture. Heather Khalifa for the NY Post Dave Frank, assistant commissioner of the state Department of Education, has responded to discriminatory claims to say the state could expand the ban to include other names and logos ruled to be offensive. 'That's their workaround … we've demonstrated that this regulation was not a good idea,' Wachter previously told The Post. 'Now you're wanting to put another unfunded mandate on top of all these districts who are just barely making it, just to not give Massapequa the win?' 5 Massapequa School Board President Kerry Wachter is seen wearing a shirt with President Trump's 'LONG LIVE THE MASSAPEQUA CHIEFS' quote. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post Rather than caving, townsfolk in Massapequa have rallied in support of the fight since President Trump intervened in April and ironically declared, 'LONG LIVE THE MASSAPEQUA CHIEFS!' 'We've garnered the support from the President of the United States, the Department of Education, the whole town, the Native American Guardians Association, and now we expect the same from the Department of Justice,' Chiefs lawyer and Massapequa native Oliver Roberts told The Post.. 'Never underestimate the power and resolve of Massapequa.'
