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Ex-host Mike Murphy sues CBS Radio
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(June 4, 2010) Former radio talk show host Michael “Mike” Murphy has sued CBS Radio East Inc. and New York-based Infinity Broadcasting Operations Inc. in Cook County court over what he alleges are illegal terms in the company’s employment contracts.
Mr. Murphy, who was on air with WSCR-AM ‘The Score’ until last summer and whose employment agreement ended last month, alleges in the May 28 lawsuit that geographic restrictions on where an employee can seek work 90 days before leaving CBS and six months afterward are prohibited by Illinois law.
An excerpt from his agreement included in the lawsuit says that he was not to enter into any agreements within 50 miles of the station unless he first offered his services under similar terms to the CBS station.
CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo declined to comment.
The lawsuit was filed as a class action on behalf of all Illinois CBS broadcast employees with such covenants working at the station since Jan. 1, 2002.
While the lawsuit didn’t specify damages, Murphy’s attorney, Lucas Fuksa, with Chicago-based Fuksa Khorshid LLC, said the damages would amount to millions of dollars. The class could extend to employees at other stations, he said.
“If people are in a similar situation, I would be willing to help them out, because situations like this are a flagrant disregard for Illinois law,” Mr. Murphy said.

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Aug. 11, 2009
By: Ameet Sachdev

(Chicago Tribune)–The financier of a defunct Internet radio station launched by Chicago radio personality Mike North has been hit with lawsuits since he was charged with running a Ponzi scheme to fund the station and his other businesses.

North and several former employees of Chicago Sports Webio filed a complaint last week in Cook County court against David Hernandez of Downers Grove for failure to pay wages and writing bad checks.

The suit said that Chet Coppock, for example, was promised a $100,000 annual salary but was only paid about $18,000 when the station shut down in June. Court documents also show that North was offered a compensation package that included an annual salary of $250,000 and 30 percent ownership in Webio. But his attorney Lucas Fuksa said North never received shares in the company. North’s wife, Bebe, who was Webio’s chief operating officer, had a $100,000 salary.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to running a $12 million Ponzi scheme. He fled the Chicago area after being charged last month and was taken into custody at a hotel in Downstate Normal after he apparently tried to kill himself. Hernandez remains in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago and could not be immediately reached for comment.

Hernandez also was sued by two of his investors last month in a Chicago federal court. North and his wife were also named as defendants in that suit. North declined to comment on both suits.

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