Ben Cesario

There was one who worked in Florida, one in Virginia.

And it's these two guys exchanging private Slack messages, bragging about how they're overcharging people for things like parking, for VIP ticket upgrades.

They say we're gouging people.

They call fans so stupid.

They use that explicit language.

And in the most amazing one, one of them said, we're robbing them blind, baby.

Yeah.

If you ever have that thought, if you work at a company, do not put that in a Slack.

That's exactly what they did.

And it was a terrible embarrassment for Live Nation.

And actually, one of these guys was on the stand.

He'd been promoted.

He's now actually at a senior position at Live Nation.

He apologized profusely, and I'm sure he was encouraged to say this, but he pointed out he was not following company policy by doing those things.

I think they were totally persuasive to the jury because when they came back with their verdict,

It was a very complicated form that they had to go through and answer questions.

Altogether, it was around 100 questions, and they got really into the weeds about the market definitions and was it shown that there was an anti-competitive effect on the marketplace and all that kind of stuff.

And they answered yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, every question that was presented to them.

They answered yes.

So there's absolutely no wiggle room or inconsistency in it.