PROVIDENCE – Six Rhode Island nonprofit groups have received $2,905 each as part of a multi-state antitrust suit against five of the nation’s largest distributors of pre-recorded music CDs and three large retailers, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said last week.
Providence CityArts for Youth, The Providence Black Repertory Company, the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, the Chorus of Westerly, Newport’s List Academy of Music and Arts, and the Kent County Arc/J. Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center in Warwick each received a check last week, Lynch said.
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The money is the last of the residual funds to be distributed, pursuant to court order, from the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine in 2002. In addition, Lynch said, 15,000 individual Rhode Island consumers who filed claims have received a total of about $150,000, and 20,000 CDs valued at $275,000 were distributed to public schools and libraries.
The six nonprofits that got grants last week must use the money for music-related programs.
