Logo text A producer has filed a lawsuit against Amazon MGM Studios , claiming that an executive at the company solicited kickbacks for post production work and blocked companies from servicing projects if they refused. In a lawsuit filed in California state court, the producer, Joe Eckardt, says he was recruited to participate in an alleged scheme in which he would be provided with the approved budget for a production in order to submit a winning bid. After the contract was awarded, he would pay head of unscripted post production Frank Salinas a percentage of the project value as repayment. The matter was reported to Amazon MGM Studios, which declined to comment. An investigation last year ultimately found that the claims were “not substantiated,” according to the complaint. The lawsuit claims Salinas in 2023 met with Eckardt, executive producer for Selling Sunset and post producer for Selling the OC and Selling Tampa .…