Child molestor Mike Rice's former Indiana properties ...

... go up for auction (finally) on July 20th.  From Tom Taylor:

It’s been eight years since Mike Rice lost two AMs in Terre Haute in a license revocation.

Mike was convicted on multiple sex-related charges involving minors and stripped of his broadcast licenses. Those included the 640 and the 1230 in Terre Haute. Then-WBOW at 640 was shut down in October 2001, and I can still recall talking to somebody there who’d gotten the phone call that day to turn everything off ("eerie", he said). The community has been without these stations for years, which is one reason to cheer the enlightened approach that saved some stations in Scranton when another owner (Doug Lane) got into trouble on similar charges. Now Mike Rice’s former AMs are part of the FCC’s Auction #88, scheduled to begin on July 20. In fact Contemporary Media – the name of Mike Rice’s former company – is bidding on both AMs. Five other parties are also bidding on both - Fort Bend Broadcasting, Powell Meredith, KM Communications, Bott Broadcasting and Word Power. While Birach Broadcasting is interested just in the 640. The other AM available in the Auction #88 is in Lansing/South Hill, New York. It’s for a new 750. Two rivals there – Romar Communications and KM (so KM is interested in all three AMs in this auction).

Rice, as you may know, was the owner of  KIRL/AM1460 before his conviction and imprisonment.  He has since claimed he's rehabiltated, but the established recidivism rate for child molestors is near 100%.