It's not really a music news story, but there were presumably some smiling faces in the HQs of the US major record companies yesterday at the news of the fall from grace of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the man who, as New York Attorney General, exposed the modern payola practices of major record companies and radio stations.
As previously reported, Spitzer sent his investigators into the major record companies and radio firms and showed how the former bribed execs at the latter to playlist their artists' music, a breach of US broadcasting rules. The majors were forced to agree to pay multi-million dollar fines in relation to the dodgy promotion tactics.
As you may have seen, Spitzer has been forced to resign as New York Governor after the New York Times revealed he had seven sessions with thousand dollar an hour call girls working for NYC based Emperors Club VIP. Though to be fair, I don't think anyone is accusing Spitzer of bribing the call girls to plug his, erm, legal rulings.