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Eliot Spitzer’s investigation into payola continues.

In a two-pronged attack, New York Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer has hit a major radio group with a lawsuit and chided federal regulators to take action, based on mountains of payola evidence.
The complaint highlights e-mails from former WKSE-FM program director David Universal, sent from December 1999 to January 2005. “Do you need help on Jessica (Simpson) this week? 1250?” he wrote to a Columbia Records representative, the complaint reveals. “If you don’t need help, I certainly don’t need to play it.”

References:

• news article: “Spitzer’s payola probe targets Entercom with suit”
• my earlier post: “Payola is Alive and Well”