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The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications yesterday of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The suit accuses senior executives at Entercom, the nation's fifth-biggest radio chain, of directing efforts to extract improper payments from record companies and independent promoters, who are middlemen hired to pitch songs. In papers filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers. Eliot Spitzer is the New York attorney general, accused the radio giant company Entercom Communications for soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The suit accuses senior executives of Entercom, the nation's fifth-biggest radio chain, of directing efforts to extract improper payments from record companies and independent promoters, who are middlemen hired to pitch songs. In papers there is filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was further used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers.