William Knoedelseder

William Knoedelseder is a television news executive, bestselling author and veteran journalist that honed his narrative and investigative skills at the Los Angeles Times. Working for more than a dozen years for the venerable publication, he provided ground breaking stories about the entertainment industry and was the producer of several exposes over this time. His investigation over two years that exposed corrupt practices at Payola and other record businesses resulted in federal grand jury investigations. Ultimately, several organized figures would be arrested and convicted and the investigations would be the foundation for the bestselling title “Stiffed.” “Entertainment Weekly” would later call it the funniest and scariest work of the year and named it 1993’s Best Non Fiction work. Two of the leads in the novel Gaetano Corky Vastola, a New Jersey crime boss and Morris Levy the founder of Roulette Records would be the basis for Tony Soprano and his advisor the music mogul Herman Hesh Rabkin.