Via Dan Wismar I’ve learned that Air America Radio has problems. It’s impossible to tell yet how serious they are, or even if the problems are image-based and fabricated. But, according to today’s New York Post, they’re serious enough that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has opened an investigation into the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club, a Bronx social services agency that loaned $875,000 to Evan Montvel Cohen.

According to The New York Sun:

Cohen, who for a time served simultaneously as the liberal radio network’s director, appealed to the organization for two loans worth $35,000. Another member of the executive committee said Mr. Cohen told the executive director of the organization that he needed the money to pay for chemotherapy for himself and other medical expenses for his ill father.

[Jeannette] Graves [president of Gloria Wise] said that Mr. Cohen also received another $213,000 loan for Air America in a check that was approved without her authorization and stamped with an imprint of her signature, and that the club wired more than $400,000 to him without her knowledge.

Yes, I know, that only adds up to $683,000, but there appears to be a great deal of confusion concerning exactly how much money went to whom. That, I expect, will be one of the first things that Spitzer’s office sorts out.

Michelle Malkin has been taking the lead on covering the story so far. Daily KOS has weighed in and Air America has issued an official media release on it’s position.

There is, of course, a lot of hand wringing over little boys and girls being deprived of stick-ball bats and such, and that may in fact be the case. From the reading I’ve done since Thursday, however, I think the case is going to turn out to be boring enough to make chewing Kerry For President posters enjoyable.

For a hint at how exciting this stuff can be, take a look at Air America And Matters Legal.

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