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- 5-18-1960: Variety, Freed’s Payola Pic (Alan Freed has authored a proposed film titled “Payolaâ€, story purchased reportedly by attorney Louis Harris and disk manufacturer Phil Landwehr)
- 6-2-1960: Down Beat Payolateers Arrested (Indicted:Â Mel Leeds, Peter Tripp WMGM, Tommy Smalls WWRL, Harold B. Jackson WLIB, Jack Walker WOV, Joseph SAccone, WMGM, Frank S. Hogan, Down Beat Payola Aftemath, consequent diminishing of rock and roll on the air, KDAY, Bruce Wendll, Top 40 format)
- 3-23-62: The Cleveland Press TV Magazine, Alan Freed’s Moon Dog Ball (10 years ago, Baltimore station last week)
- 8-28-62: Freed leaves KDAY in Los Angeles for WQAM, Miami
- 3-17-1964: “Moondogger’ Freed Faces Tax Charge†(indicted by NYC federal grand jury yesterday, evading more than $37000 income taxes, “payola†from record companies for publicizing their records, APP, living in Palm Springs Calif., 1962 pleaded guilty to two counts of commercial bribery deriving from payola scandal, six-month suspended sentence and a fine of $300)
