Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"
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Live Nation director boasted of "gouging" ticket buyers and "robbing them blind" with fees.
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You may be paying inflated prices and excessive fees for concert and event tickets due to Live Nation's practices.
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Newly unsealed documents reveal a Live Nation regional director boasted of "gouging" ticket buyers and "robbing them blind" with fees for ancillary services. Live Nation sought to exclude these Slack messages from a trial aimed at breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster, arguing they were "highly prejudicial" and irrelevant. The US government and state attorneys general opposed this exclusion, citing messages where the director called fans "so stupid" and bragged about gouging them. US District Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the documents unsealed yesterday but has not yet ruled on Live Nation's motion to exclude the evidence.
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A US District Judge unsealed documents showing Live Nation's practices as part of a trial to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
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