Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon paid nearly $20 million in unrecorded company expenses, including $5 million to Donald Trump's charity, the company's board has reportedly found.
That's according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, which says WWE revealed in securities filings that $19.6 million in payments from McMahon's pocket should have been disclosed as business expenses "because the transactions benefited the company." This reportedly included a $4 million contribution to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 2007 and another $1 million in 2009.
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