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On March 21, 2022, the FCC designated the license for hearing and proposed its revocation as a result of Armstrong's 2016 felony conviction on a charge of filing false federal income tax statements.[13] The case dealt with a scheme to profit off an increase in cigarette taxes in Tennessee by buying tax stamps and reselling them after the taxes increased.[14]
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Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'character qualifications' policy
June 25, 2023
"The FCC declined to comment on Armstrong's pending case, as the case is still in hearing. Paloma Perez, press secretary for the FCC, told NPR that the commission has a duty to ensure that everyone holding a license to use the public airwaves "does so in the public interest."
"It is longstanding practice that any licensee with a felony conviction be placed into hearing in order to examine whether the licensee has the requisite character qualifications to remain a trustee of the public airwaves," Perez told NPR in a statement.
Armstrong's case with the FCC is similar to several cases where the commission has placed licensees into hearing status due to previous felonies."
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