Andre signs off (involuntarily)
For Andre Eggelletion, this has got to be the unkindest cut of all:
FORT LAUDERDALE – Days after the South Florida Times reported that prosecutors are investigating former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion’s brother in an ongoing bribery probe, the radio talk show host’s program went off the air. Andre Eggelletion was host of The Andre Eggelletion Show, which aired Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on News-Talk 850, WFTL in Fort Lauderdale for just over two years.
Yet during the program on Sunday, Dec. 20, Andre Eggelletion told listeners that this show would be his last. He gave no explanation. When one caller asked him about the bribery investigation, he told the person, “Sorry. I can’t talk about any of that,” and moved on to another caller.
WFTL general manager Steve Lapa could not be reached for comment, and no one from the company has provided an official reason for the show’s cancellation. The cancellation came two days after the newspaper’s website, SFLTimes.com, published a report stating that the bribery investigation which centered on Josephus Eggelletion now also includes his brother.
The Broward State Attorney’s Office is investigating to determine if the radio show host may have accepted money on behalf of his brother from companies that had business before the county commission, according to sources. Prosecutors are seeking to determine what work Andre Eggelletion’s National Jingle Company performed for Prestige Homes of South Florida, Inc., and whether any of the money from the developer went to Josephus Eggelletion, possibly as a concealed bribe, sources said.
Given how much Andre loves the microphone, he can’t be a happy camper tonight. He already had to give up the XM show his friend Lee Michaels hooked up for him, after Radio One severed it’s ties with XM 169 The Power (and then it severed its ties with Lee Michaels…) And now this. I suppose he could always do private readings of “Thieves in the Temple…”
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