Justice Dept. Probes Clear Channel

[JewelDigger]

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SAN ANTONIO - The Justice Department is investigating Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio owner, amid complaints about consolidation and the use of coercive tactics by the company, officials said Friday.

R. Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general for antitrust, told a House subcommittee that there is an investigation into Clear Channel. Officials would not disclose any details about the nature of the probe.

Pate said in a hearing Thursday that the Justice Department had interviewed people that Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., had referred to the agency after they complained of coercive tactics.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47426-2003Jul25?language=printer

[cosmicdot]

1. wonder if this is why Vernon Jordan

no longer is a Clear Channel Board of Directors member - got out with perhaps a head's up ??


(replaced by J C Watts, former Congressman)