TCPA regulators accepted large gifts from entities they regulate

So reports Corey G. Johnson of Pro Publica in FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals. That article focuses on the FCC’s regulation of the entertainment industry but the FCC also implements and interprets the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (which is not to say that the deals in question won’t affect consumers).  The commissioners accepted tickets worth $12,000 or even possibly as much as $250,000. Nor, according to the article, is this something only Republican FCC commissioners did.