Sue Spanish radio host Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo Monday on Univision six former employees, accusing them of conspiracy to extort 490,000 yuan from his threat, they would falsely accused him of sexual harassment and workplace humiliation.
The suit said, the staff is Piolin friends, one from high school, thanks to his success on radio and want revenge fired.
Sotelo's long-running show, "Piolin POR Morning" abruptly canceled without any explanation Univision last month. Subsequently reported that a former staff attorney wrote a letter to find a solution to allegations of sexual harassment, April Univision.
Sotelo litigation detail employees through their lawyers "seal their lips," and take their allegations, "their graves," Sotelo pay if they were accused of quote.
Prosecutor Richard Clayton, named as a defendant, did not return calls to comment.
It said Sotelo, who was declared bankrupt after working in a fast food restaurant, the friends who have the opportunity to engage into the station. Six defendants including a bakery deliveryman, online copywriting, medical waste hauler, warehouse employees and female traffic police reporter.
Some were trained in radio technology, the suit said, a person's a simple job, damn curse words, freewheeling performances, before it reaches the air. Said the man sometimes failed to prevent it, from the air in writing. But Piolin said he intercede to keep people working.
Suit troubled employees performing jealousy and suspicious activity drew a picture.
It said the trouble began when Piolin was named manager of the exhibition's friends, who discovered how much money Piolin promote business, and ask for a raise $ 1 million. It said that the same man used his position to find work friends, relatives and a young woman, with whom he began an affair. The suit claims that "to create a workplace drama when (his wife) drove to Univision Studios, ask a woman was fired."
The suit said, the woman, who was given a late-night talk show, to give prizes, her family members were found, and eventually fired.
"Piolin is determined by the behavior of his former colleague and personal friend was shocked," the lawsuit said.
His lawyer Jeffrey Spitz, known as the alleged extortion scheme "is the best I have ever seen shameless, shameless and despicable examples of extortion."
Sotelo corny jokes and playing pranks, who was recently elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame, his morning drive time show, but also including President Barack Obama discussed immigration reform issues, such as chair politician.
In 2007, he traveled to Washington, there are currently 10,000 to support immigration reform lawmakers. He often talked about his plans, his own experience as an immigrant as a teenager after illegally crossing the border to obtain documents, and became an American citizen.
Piolin, his nickname means "Tweety Bird," "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and other films also said the role. He recently signed a contract SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
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