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@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/article/screen/print.css); Boy-Band Manager Ordered to Repay $300 Million - Brief - NYTimes.com var google_hints = "Backstreet+Boys,New+Kids+on+the+Block"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_arts"; July 18, 2008 Boy-Band Manager Ordered to Repay $300 Million Compiled by JULIE BLOOM Boy bands have returned the Backstreet Boys are on tour and the New Kids on the Block are soon to be but a former manager of such groups is not so lucky. Lou Pearlman has been ordered to pay $300 million in restitution to the victims of his decades-long investment fraud, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Pearlman, who is serving a 25-year sentence, may not have the funds to pay the order the judge asked lawyers on Wednesd...(read more)