Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo may now have his own radio channel and show on SiriusXM, but that’s not stopping the legal worries from accumulating.
On Monday, the Spanish-language radio star filed a civil extortion lawsuit against six former employees from his Univision morning show “Piolin Por La Mañana” according to a press release. Sotelo accuses his past colleagues of attempting to blackmail him out almost $5 million in exchange for not going public with “false and misleading allegations of sexual harassment and workplace humiliation.”
The lawsuit states the six defendants made their monetary demands last week via telephone and in writing, threatening to copy the sexual harassment allegations filed by former employee Alberto “Beto” Cortez the week after the famed Univision morning show was abruptly cancelled in July.
Sotelo’s attorney Jeffrey Spitz filed the lawsuit against Domingo Rodrigo Ochoa, Tomas Alejandro Fernandez, Samuel "Cusuco" Heredia, Sergio "Checo" Vera, Gerardo "Chiquirruco" Palencia,...
On Monday, the Spanish-language radio star filed a civil extortion lawsuit against six former employees from his Univision morning show “Piolin Por La Mañana” according to a press release. Sotelo accuses his past colleagues of attempting to blackmail him out almost $5 million in exchange for not going public with “false and misleading allegations of sexual harassment and workplace humiliation.”
The lawsuit states the six defendants made their monetary demands last week via telephone and in writing, threatening to copy the sexual harassment allegations filed by former employee Alberto “Beto” Cortez the week after the famed Univision morning show was abruptly cancelled in July.
Sotelo’s attorney Jeffrey Spitz filed the lawsuit against Domingo Rodrigo Ochoa, Tomas Alejandro Fernandez, Samuel "Cusuco" Heredia, Sergio "Checo" Vera, Gerardo "Chiquirruco" Palencia,...
- 8/26/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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