By Jason Powell, Prowrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
WWE no longer employs Sal Siino, who was the Senior Vice President of Global Content Distribution and Business Development. Siino was fired when the Huffington Post’s Luke O’Brien did a feature on Siino’s wife Amy Mekelburg, who started an organization called Resistance Against Islamic Radicals, and runs an Islamophobic account on Twitter.
WWE officials told O’Brien last week that it was the first they were hearing of Mekelburg. When O’Brien reached out the following day, WWE confirmed that Siino was no longer with the company. “Now that it has come to our attention, Sal Siino is no longer an employee,” a company spokesman stated. Read the full story at HuffingtonPost.com.
Powell’s POV: WWE confirmed in the story that Siino helped negotiate the WWE television deal with United Arab Emirates (presumably while his wife was at home hate tweeting about Muslims). Siino declined to comment for the story, but his wife indicated via Twitter that he was fired by the company. Mekelburg is now pleading with her followers to contact the Huffington Post and demand that O’Brien “stop endangering me and my family.” It’s an embarrassing situation for WWE, especially with a former friend of Mekelburg stating in the story that Mekelburg claimed the company was aware of her and wanted Siino to keep her quiet.
Wow, guilt by association.