payola

There remain battles to be fought, whisper campaigns to be hatched, payola scandals to be investigated.

It's not just the payola, but what it represents: an imperious court stacked with far-right justices who have become petty tyrants.

Unfortunately, the show mostly skims over the fact that in addition to hobnobbing with Levy — they both eventually went down for payola — Freed overindulged in booze and women.

Gravani has kept up with the various federal investigations into “payola,” as she puts it, at City Hall.

“It has made raiding schools, raiding their programs very much a possibility. And particularly with NIL benefit to it, it is unrestricted free agency with payola.”