In May, Spitzer ordered Universal Music Group (France), Sony-BMG Music Entertainment (Japan and Germany), the EMI Group (UK) and the Warner Music Group (USA) to return $50 million to musicians they'd had under contract.
Now payola is the issue and Spitzer is looking for contracts, billing records and other information detailing their ties to independent middlemen who pitch new songs to radio programmers, says the New York Times, going on:
"The inquiry encompasses all the major radio formats and is not aiming at any individual record promoter, these people [sources] said. Mr. Spitzer and representatives for the record companies declined to comment.
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