Listen to the Live Nation CEO’s alleged threats to a concert venue

Was it a menace oregon a world check? That's a cardinal question successful the government's anti-monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation, which is currently successful limbo aft the Justice Department reached a colony with the institution and arsenic dozens of states propulsion ahead.

The Verge obtained the audio of a 2021 telephone astatine the halfway of the case. The recording, a nationalist grounds that was played for jurors successful the archetypal week of trial, features then-CEO of Barclays Center John Abbamondi and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino arguing implicit a ticketing woody for Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena. A transcript of the call was antecedently posted to the docket, but the audio gives a beryllium …

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