The New York Post is reporting that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign has brought in $40,000 in contributions from music industry execs since he launched his payola investigation.

" The largest donation - $25,000 last September - came from Paul Fribourg, who sits on the supervisory board of Vivendi Universal, the parent of Universal Music, which is under investigation. Another $10,000 came in November from Richard Sarnoff, who sits on the supervisory board of Bertelsmann AG. That company is part of Sony BMG, which reached a settlement in the payola probe."

Rival Bill Weld's camp predictably said this raises "serious ethical questions" and that Spitzer's "own version of payola" should be investigated.

And since everybody has a blog these days, Spitzer has a blog as well (though it's not updated with much regularity). It's at the Spitzer 2006 website.

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• Another View of Payola
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• Spitzer Has Words For Sony BMG, Retailers