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Paramount Plan To Pay Off Trump Sparks California Senate Probe, Requests For Ex-CBS News Brass To Testify
Shar Redstone's dream of seal the $8B sale of Paramount to Skydance may have hit a barrier in Sacramento
However, if Shari Redstone thinks a big check and an apology to Trump for a piece last year from the vaulted newsmagazine series he didn’t like is enough to grease the regulatory wheels for Skydance ’s $8 billion absorption of the company, the California state senate has a news alert for her. “Your recent resignations from CBS’s leadership, amid public reports of internal concern about the editorial and ethical implications of the proposed settlement, suggest that you may possess important, first-hand knowledge relevant to our legislative oversight responsibilities,” state Senators Josh Becker and Thomas J. Umberg wrote to Owens and McMahon Friday. Owens and McMahon both jumped ship from CBS in the past several weeks before they were given a fatal shove by George Cheeks for resisting the motivations of the C-suites and Redstone to tone down critiques of the former Apprentice host and reach a settlement to the ludicrous priced lawsuit Trump filed just before last year’s election.
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