NEW YORK — LiveNationEntertainment’s longtime chief executive was the star witness at a New York antitrust trial Thursday, defending the dominant position his company has taken over the last two decades as a lawyer for nearly three dozen ... .
The structural spine of this settlement—the anti-retaliation language, the consent decree, the monitor—is a continuation of what the Obama administration put in place in 2010 when LiveNation and Ticketmaster merged.
LiveNationCEOMichaelRapino took the stand for several hours in Manhattan federal court in a high-stakes antitrust trial, where he pushed back on accusations that the company illegally monopolizes live concerts in the U.S ... .
... for having once bragged that LiveNation and Ticketmaster’s business was “recession proof,” allegedly also noting that he had “built an incredible moat around the castle of Live Nation.”.
While LiveNation continues to receive scrutiny on a national level due to a recent Department of Justice lawsuit settlement, a recent Live Nation graffiti advertisement outside a favorite Nashville...