WASHINGTON, D.C. — A special investigative report by Reuters showed that the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department is conducting a federal investigation on a California radio company that is reportedly backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government.

Reuters reports that G&E Studio Inc., a Los Angeles-based company, is 60 percent owned by a subsidiary of China Radio International, a Chinese state-run broadcaster based in Beijing. The California radio firm is owned by James Su, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Shanghai.

The FCC monitors indecency and political advertising in news content but otherwise does not restrict content broadcast on U.S. radio stations. By U.S. law, foreign governments or their representatives are not allowed to own more than 25% of a station’s U.S. parent corporation without FCC approval.

In a Sept. 16 interview, Su said that he is merely a businessman and not an agent of China. “Our U.S. audience and our U.S. public has the choice,” Su said. “They can choose to listen or not listen. I think this is an American value.”

Su also argued that the company is not doing anything illegal since it does not own any U.S. radio stations, but only leases air time from two radio stations.

G&E Studio Inc. broadcasts over 14 different cities in the U.S., including Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and San Francisco. There are at least 33 radio stations in 14 countries in CRI’s global network.

Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the U.S. requires anyone seeking to influence U.S. public opinion on behalf of foreign agents to register with the Justice Department. However, neither Su nor his companies are registered.

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Charter Communications has cleared a final regulatory hurdle in its nearly year-long quest to clinch its $71-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. California Public Utilities Commission members on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the transfer of phone licenses, a blessing needed by Charter to complete the merger of three cable companies. Charter is expected to finalize the Time Warner Cable and Bright House transactions next week, and then work to consolidate its cable systems nationwide. The Federal Communications Commission approved the deal last week after attaching several conditions aimed at expanding the availability of broadband Internet to begin to close the so-called digital divide. The FCC also won a pledge from Charter that it would not try to thwart the development of video streaming services. Charter will become the largest Internet service and pay-TV provider in Southern California with more than 2 million customer homes.  It also will become a major provider in New York, Dallas and parts of Florida.“We are pleased to have now obtained all approvals,” Charter Chief Executive Tom Rutledge said in a statement. “We look forward to closing these transactions next week and to begin delivering the many benefits of these transactions to consumers.” California PUC members applauded Charter for agreeing to lay cable lines in some geographic regions without lines and for establishing a program to offering affordable Internet service for low-income families with children and low-income seniors.Charter also committed  to rolling out higher Internet speeds to its customer base, a pledge embraced by several PUC members.
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Dozens of graves and coffins linked to a 310-year-old burial ground in Philadelphia have been uncovered during a recent construction project.

Dozens of graves and coffins linked to a 310-year-old burial ground in Philadelphia have been uncovered during a recent construction project, reports Philly.com. 
Crews working to build a new apartment building in the Old City neighborhood reportedly found some initial remains last fall, and last month, they encountered coffins which have been described as being “stacked three deep.” 
The number of gravesites has since been estimated to be as high as 300. 
According to KYW, “The coffins were part of the First Baptist Church Burial Ground established in 1707….Records show the bodies should have been moved to the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Southwest Philadelphia around 1860, but historians agree that someone didn’t do their job.” 
In fact, experts have suggested that the task was likely not completed to save money. 
The company in charge of the development, PMC Properties, agreed to temporarily stop work on the construction project, but they have given archaeologists excavating the site until Saturday, March 11 to finish up their work. 
Researchers hope to follow through on the original plan and eventually reinter the remains at Mount Moriah Cemetery. 
However, before doing so, they plan to study at least some of the bodies and determine characteristics like age, gender, and ethnicity. 

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