April 17, 2026
JOHNNY SOMALI JAILED, TICKETMASTER IS A MONOPOLY & THE MAN WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
The internet's worst tourist gets six months of hard labor, a jury finally calls the concert giant what it is, and SantaCon's president had a very different charity in mind — himself.
Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a MAGA hat — has been sentenced to six months of hard labor in South Korea. A New York jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly, overcharging fans by $1.72 per ticket while controlling nearly 90 percent of the live concert business. And the president of SantaCon has been arrested for federal wire fraud, accused of funneling $1.4 million of a $2.7 million charitable haul into luxury vacations, home renovations, and a lakefront property in New Jersey. Plus: a Tiger Woods update.
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Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a MAGA hat — has been sentenced to six months of hard labor in South Korea. A New York jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly, overcharging fans by $1.72 per ticket while controlling nearly 90 percent of the live concert business. And the president of SantaCon has been arrested for federal wire fraud, accused of funneling $1.4 million of a $2.7 million charitable haul into luxury vacations, home renovations, and a lakefront property in New Jersey. Plus: a Tiger Woods update.
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Kalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Garrett Fisher. Friday, April seventeenth,
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twenty twenty six. Let's do this quickly, because there's a
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lot to get to. Soul, South Korea. An American live
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streamer who spent months harassing locals, disrupting public transit, vandalizing
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a convenience store, and in the moment that got the
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whole world watching, grinding on a bronze memorial to women
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forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World
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War Two, sentenced this week six months of hard labor.
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Convicted on all charges. His mother begged the court for mercy.
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The court said no. For once the system worked exactly
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the way it was supposed to. Manhattan Federal Court, five
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weeks of antitrust trial, a jury of twelve ordinary people
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has now concluded what hundreds of thousands of concert fans
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already knew. Live Nation and Ticketmaster are a monopoly. They
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use their dominance to lock out competitors, force venues into
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exclusive deals, and charge fans one dollar and seventy two
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cents too much on every single ticket. The question now
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is what a judge does about it. Breakup, divestiture, we'll
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walk through all of it, and then there's Santacon. Every December,
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tens of thousands of New Yorkers dress up as Santa
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Claus and stagger through Manhattan bars, paying between ten and
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twenty dollars for a ticket, under the impression their money
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is going to charity. The man who ran that operation
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for years was arrested this week on federal wire fraud charges.
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Prosecutors say he spent more than half of the money
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raised over two and a half million dollars across six
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years on himself, luxury apartments, lakefront renovations, fine dining, ski vacations.
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The f called it stealing Christmas. I'd call it something
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worse and Tiger Woods. A brief update because his case
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keeps moving even while he does not. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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This is Daily Crime and Justice. His real name is
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Ismael Ramsey Khalid. He's twenty five years old. He's from
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the United States, and for the past several years, his job,
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his actual monetized job, has been to travel to foreign
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countries and do things that get him hurt, chased, arrested,
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and in some cases beaten unconscious on camera, then post
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it to YouTube for views. I want to give you
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the full picture before we get to the verdict, because
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context matters here. In twenty twenty three, Khaleig traveled to
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Japan under the persona Johnny Somali, a name he apparently
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chose to provoke. While there, he taunted locals with comments
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about the bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was arrested
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for trespassing on a construction site in Osaka. He disrupted
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a restaurant by blasting loud music and was find the
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equivalent of about fourteen hundred dollars. He drew widespread condemnation.
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He left Japan. He moved on. In twenty twenty four,
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he was in Tel Aviv during a protest and was
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detained briefly after making inappropriate remarks toward a female police officer.
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He was released. He moved on. Then he went to
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South Korea. The incident that changed everything happened when Khalid
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approached a statue in Soul known as the Statue of Peace,
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a bronze figure of a young woman seated in a
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chair with an empty chair beside her. The statue was
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commissioned by activists to memorialize the comfort women of World
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War II. That's the euphemism used at the time. The
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reality an estimated two hundred thousand women, most of them Korean,
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were taken by the Japanese military and forced into sexual slavery.
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Many of them spent the rest of their lives fighting
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for acknowledgment and reparations that most of them never received.
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The statue is one of dozens across South Korea. It
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is not a decorative landmark. It is a grave marker
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for the living. Collein posted a video of himself performing
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lap dances on the statue, kissing it for content. The
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backlash was immediate and severe. South Korean lawmakers raised it
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in parliament. Local residents began organizing to find him. A
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former member of the South Korean Special Forces located him
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on the street and knocked him unconscious. The video of
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it spread across social media almost immediately. He was still
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challenged to fights, chased through neighborhoods, and confronted repeatedly in
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the weeks that followed. South Korean prosecutors charged him with
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public nuisance in November twenty twenty four and barred him
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from leaving the country. What unfolded over the next several
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months was not a story about a man who went
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quiet and waited for the legal system to process him.
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He continued streaming. He challenged locals to fight him. He
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was charged with additional offenses disrupting business operations at a
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convenience store and on a city bus, live streaming North
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Korean propaganda. And this is the charge that ultimately carried
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the most weight, distributing sexual deep fakes. At his first hearing,
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he appeared late. He was intoxicated. He was wearing a
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Maga hat. That's not a mistake, that's a choice. At
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his final hearing this week, he told the court, I
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did some foolish things under the influence of alcohol, and
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I realized the consequences. I sincerely apologize. He also told
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the court that some of what he did would not
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have been illegal in the United States. He said he
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did not understand how serious the consequences could be. His
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mother submitted a separate written petition asking for leniency. The
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court considered it. The court rejected it. The sentence six
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months in prison hard labor. He'll be held in a
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specialized facility where he will have no access to a
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cell phone. He'll be marked as a convicted criminal in
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the Korean system. The court's language was direct. He repeatedly
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committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate
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profit via YouTube, and distributed the content in disregard of
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Korean law. Prosecutors had asked for three years. The judges
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went lower, citing the absence of severe harm to individual victims.
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As a condition of his eventual release, he has been
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barred from working with organizations that serve minors or people
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with disabilities. Let me be precise about a few things,
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because this case is being discussed in some corners of
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the Internet as either a free speech martyrdom or an
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international overreach. It is neither. What Kelly did was not
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misunderstood tourist behavior. It was a systematic business model. Travel somewhere,
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do something to say, designed to provoke and humiliate, capture
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the reaction, monetize the outrage. The deep bake charge distributing
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sexualized AI generated images is a serious offense with real
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victims under Korean law and increasingly under law in many countries.
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He did not accidentally disrupt a convenience store. He streamed
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himself doing it. His YouTube account has since been terminated.
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I will also say this, there's something clarifying about a
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system that looked at all of it and handed down
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a sentence, a statement, and a set of conditions. It
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didn't give him what he wanted. It didn't make him
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famous in the way he was hoping. It just held
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him responsible. That is genuinely what accountability is supposed to
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look like. Six months, hard labor, no phone, no audience
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for once, exactly right, welcome back. I want to take
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a moment before we get into the mechanics of this
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verdict to say something that I think gets lost in
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the legal language. If you have bought a ticket to
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a concert in the last fifteen years, you have felt
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this the face value of the ticket, then the facility charge,
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the service fee, the order processing fee, the convenience fee,
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the fee for printing it yourself. By the time you
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check out, you're paying twenty thirty forty percent more than
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the listed price for a fee structure that exists not
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because it costs that much to sell you a ticket electronically,
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but because the company selling you that ticket has almost
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no competition, so it can. This week, a federal jury
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in Manhattan said, yes, that is what was happening, and
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it was illegal. Let me walk you through this Live
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Nation Entertainment is the largest live events company in the world.
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It owns or controls hundreds of venues, amphathea arenas, clubs, theaters.
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It employs the majority of the major touring concert promoters.
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Its subsidiary, Ticketmaster, is the world's largest ticket seller, handling
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the majority of major concerts, sporting events, and live performances
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in the United States. The companies merged in twenty ten
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during the Obama administration over the objections of consumer advocates
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and artist groups who said the combination would be anti competitive.
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The Justice Department approved it anyway, with conditions. Those conditions,
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critics argued almost immediately, were not being enforced. There's a
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playbook for this. The lawsuit that led to this week's
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verdict was filed in twenty twenty four by the Department
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of Justice and approximately forty states, alleging that Live Nation
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had used its dominance over venues, promotion and ticketing to
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lock competitors out of the market. The claim that venues
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were pressured to use Ticketmaster exclusively, that artists who worked
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with rival promoters found their access to Live Nation venues restricted,
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and that the combination of all of this control across
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every layer of the live events industry constituted an illegal
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monopoly under federal antitrust law. The trial ran five weeks.
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It brought in testimony from top music industry executives. It
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put Live Nation CEO Michael Rappino on the stand, where
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he was questioned about, among other things, the twenty twenty
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two Taylor Swift ticketing disaster, when Ticketmaster Systems collapsed under
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demand for her Heiress tour presale. Rapino blamed a cyber attack.
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The States argued it was a symptom of a company
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that had no incentive to invest in its own infrastructure
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because it faced no meaningful competition. Then came the internal messages.
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A Live Nation executive named Benjamin Baker had in private
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communications described certain ticket prices as outrageous, called customers so
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stupid and and this is the phrase that is going
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to follow this company for years. Both did that the
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company was robbing them blind baby. Baker testified that the
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messages were immature and unacceptable. He was apologetic the jury
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heard them anyway. Live Nation's defense was essentially, we are big,
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and that's legal success is not against the antitrust laws
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in the United States. Their attorney told the jury in closing,
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the company controls eighty six percent of the market for
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large concert venues and seventy three percent of the overall
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ticketing market when sporting events are included. They argued those
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numbers reflect excellence and consumer preference, not illegal coercion. They
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argued the States had not proven Live Nation acted as
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a monopolist. They can't, and they didn't, their lawyer said.
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The jury disagreed after five days of deliberation. They found
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Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly. They
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found Ticketmaster had overcharged consumers by one dollar and sex
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seventy two cents per ticket. The jury was not asked
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to calculate a total damages figure that will be determined
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by the judge. But when you multiply one dollar and
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seventy two cents across the hundreds of millions of tickets
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sold annually by the largest ticketer in the country, the
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number gets very large, very quickly. There is a complicating
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wrinkle here, and it matters. Weeks into the trial, the
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Department of Justice under the Trump administration quietly reached a
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settlement with Live Nation. That deal had the company agreeing
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to allow competitors like seat geek or stub Hub to
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sell tickets to its events, capping service fees at fifteen
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percent at some amphitheaters, and paying two hundred and eighty
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million dollars to the handful of states that signed onto
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the agreement. It did not require Live Nation to break
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apart from Ticketmaster, and critically, it was reached just weeks
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after the administration removed the DOJ's Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater,
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who had been pushing for the more aggressive approach. More
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than thirty states refused the settlement. They proceeded to trial,
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and they won. The jury verdict does not instantly undo
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any of that Live Nation has already said it will appeal.
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The DOJ settlement still requires the judge's approval. What happens
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next is a remedyes phase, a separate proceeding where the
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states will propose what they want the court to order.
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That could include forcing Live Nation to divest venues it
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owns or to sell Ticketmaster outright, or the judge could
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order more modest structural changes and call it done. New
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York Attorney General Letitia James called it what the states
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long knew to be true. California's ag Rob Bonta said
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the verdict showed how far states could go to protect
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consumers when federal enforcement retreats. Senator Amy Klobashar, who has
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spent years on this issue, said the court must ensure
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any remedy actually opens the market, meaning lower prices, more competition,
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and real consequences, not a deal that falls short. Live Nation,
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for its part, released a statement Wednesday saying the verdict
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is not the last word. They are probably right that
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there will be more proceedings, but there are also now
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twelve jurors who heard five weeks of evidence, saw the
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internal messages and said, monopoly, you were doing it wrong,
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you were costing people money, and you were doing it
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on purpose. Accountability doesn't have a legal department. The remedies
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phase will determine what all of this actually means in
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practice for concert fans. The honest truth is that even
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in the best case scenario divestiture, breakup, competition restored, it
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takes years for structural changes in a market to translate
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to lower prices at checkout. So don't hold your breath
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waiting for cheap tickets next summer. But the foundation of
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the argument that their dominance is just success, that it's legal,
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that nobody proved otherwise. That foundation now has a federal
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jury vertic sitting on top of it. Let's see what
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they do with it. Welcome Back. Santacon is a tradition
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every December, on a predetermined Saturday, tens of thousands of
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people dressed as Santa Claus descend on the bars and
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restaurants of Manhattan. They buy tickets ten to twenty dollars
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each that grant access to participating venues. The venues agree
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to donate a percentage of their sales to charity. The
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whole thing is presented loudly and repeatedly as a charitable event,
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a fun one, one where you can drink heavily while
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also feeling good about yourself. Your donation goes to charity,
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and it is only a few bucks, and that good
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feeling will warm your heart faster than whiskey and gingerbread.
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That is a direct quote from a Santa Con email
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to an attendee. It was read aloud in a federal
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indictment this week. Defan Pildas is fifty years old. He
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lives in Hewitt, New Jersey. He has been the president
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