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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals


Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

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