Janel Grant has launched an account on Instagram and shared correspondence with the FBI over the course of nearly three years.
Grant, who launched a sexual misconduct lawsuit against Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and WWE in 2024, posted photos of a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice on May 25, 2023. The letter was sent nearly one year after the Wall Street Journal’s first story about a hush money payment orchestrated by Vince McMahon involving Grant.
Earlier this month, Grant released a 40-page affidavit with additional details on the allegations and arguing that she was under duress to sign the NDA four years ago.
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From Grant:
This is the first letter I got from the FBI. I got these letters between May 2023 and December 2025. I never thought I’d get a letter like this, much less years of them.
Ahead of the vote in CT on Raised Bill S.B. 355, I believe it’s important to share this letter in service of the broader conversation. When the lack of NDA policy is the status quo, I believe this letter will help others see and understand the real-life impact of that baseline.
The evolution of doing business led to a destination point where a company’s public announcement of an internal investigation, during the summer of 2022, was followed by the launch of a federal investigation related to “hush money payments” made from 2006 through 2022 (per Wall Street Journal)
If the Feds reached out to interview any former/current employees and reviewed their evidence, what would that reveal about culture, use of power, treatment of people, and the status quo in practice?
As reflected in Wall Street Journal reporting, federal agents executed a search warrant and delivered a subpoena in the summer of 2023 for documents related to any allegation of “rape, sex trafficking, sexual assault, commercial sex transaction, harassment or discrimination against current or former employees” of this company. That reporting also notes that multiple names appeared in a grand jury subpoena in connection with settlement agreements related to allegations of sexual misconduct including mine. The article dated February 2, 2024 speaks for itself.
This is why I received letters like this – and why I continued to receive them up until a few months ago. The status quo in practice is how we arrived here. This is our starting line ahead of the vote on Raised Bill S.B. 355.
As the right people are meeting at the right time ahead of this vote, I hope this helps bring clarity and supports productive, dignified conversations that lead to solutions.
Judge Sarah Russell will have to rule on the language of the non-disclosure agreement between McMahon and Grant from January 2022, and if an arbitration clause is valid, to determine the venue for the case to proceed.
McMahon agreed to pay $3 million to Grant in installments but missed a February 2023 payment with their assertion that the NDA had been violated. Grant filed her lawsuit in January 2024, and since then, Laurinaitis has been dropped as a defendant, with McMahon and WWE remaining as part of the lawsuit. Grant alleges she was sexually assaulted and trafficked during her time working at WWE.
