Philadelphia Anchor Suspended
04 June 2008
Philadelphia Anchor Suspended
The FBI is looking into the possibility that Larry Mendte, the former co-host of
Access Hollywood and currently an anchor at KYW-TV Philadelphia, may have
been implicated in the alleged hacking of his former co-anchor's computer and leaking
her email messages to gossip columnists, the Associated Press reported today (Wednesday).
Last week, the FBI reportedly raided Mendte's home and seized his computer. The AP
said that Alycia Lane, Mendte's former co-anchor, may have been targeted by Mendte
because she had been receiving more publicity -- and more pay (reportedly $750,000 annually
-- than he. Mendte has been temporarily suspended. In December, Lane was reportedly
involved in a scuffle with a New York City policewoman that resulted in felony assault
charges being brought against her. The following month she was terminated. (The
assault charges were subsequently dropped, and Lane has filed a wrongful termination
lawsuit against the station.) The arrest had been reported in the New York Post's "P
age Six" gossip column as had an earlier report that Lane had sent photos of herself
in a bikini to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen. She later explained that she and Eisen
were longtime friends and that their relationship was purely platonic.
04/06/2008
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