Ted "Teddy" DiBiase Jr., center, walks with his wife Kristen Tynes and his attorney Scott Gilbert to the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
One spring day in 2018, entrepreneur and former WWE wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr. “became an instant millionaire,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Thursday.
Eight years later, DiBiase sat stoically in a federal courtroom as his trial in a sprawling welfare scandal neared a close.
