Aug 25, 2005 • 1 min read

EMI in payola talks with Spitzer?

HitsDailyDouble reports EMI is in secret meetings with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office over his payola investigations, which may lead to a statement from Capitol.

According to the HitsDailyDouble website in the US, EMI chiefs are locked in secret meetings with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (well, more likely his people) regarding his ongoing investigations into payola in the US music industry. That probably means EMI's US division Capitol is likely to make a statement on any payola type tactics its promotional staff or agencies have employed, and might involve agreeing to pay some kind of fine or other, although all of that is currently idle speculation.

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