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J onathan Kanter is standing in the basement recording studio of his Bethesda, Maryland, home, surrounded by an enviable collection of dozens of vintage and limited-edition guitars. It’s a warm June evening and the place feels like the Platinum Room at Guitar Center, with the walls covered in blond wood …

Prominent right-wing influencers including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson are claiming to be the victims of a fraudulent Russian political disinformation scheme exposed by the Justice Department on Wednesday. In an unsealed indictment, the DOJ charged two Russian citizens, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyev, with acting as unregistered …

Ten more states have joined the Department of Justice‘s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, according to an amended complaint the DOJ filed Monday morning, marking a total of 39 states as well as the District of Columbia to have sued the concert and ticketing giant over the DOJ’s monopoly claims. …

The federal judge overseeing the DOJ’s monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation established a protective order this week to restrict the concert and ticketing giant’s in-house legal team from accessing particularly sensitive documents from their competitors, with the decision coming days after several competing companies voiced retaliation concerns. The protective order, …

Attorney General Merrick Garland slammed Republican attacks against the Justice Department in a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. “I will not be intimidated,” Garland said in his opening statements. “The Justice Department will not be intimidated. We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And …

Live Nation will have to prove it does not hold a monopoly over live events if it hopes to avoid a breakup with Ticketmaster, legal experts say. But in looking ahead at a possible years-long fight with the Department of Justice following their bombshell, 124-page lawsuit, the world’s largest concert …

The Department of Justice rocked the live music world on Thursday with an explosive antitrust lawsuit it filed against concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment, the culmination of a years-long investigation the regulatory group launched in 2022. In an extensive complaint, the Justice Department accused Live Nation of exerting …

For years, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has sought to reform the concert industry. On Thursday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster‘s alleged monopoly on the U.S. touring industry, claiming that the businesses have been feeding on ticket buyers since merging in 2010. (Live …

Live Nation and Ticketmaster may finally face a federal antitrust lawsuit after years of criticism from fans and politicians over how the entertainment giant may have abused its power as the dominant force in the live music industry. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division …