Senate subcommittee subpoenas Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Rolling Stone says

A U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations sent out a subpoena to Live Nation late last week requesting documents related to ticket prices and fees listed on the live music giant’s Ticketmaster platform, Rolling Stone’s Ethan Millman reports. The subpoena arrives eight months after the Senate subcommittee first opened an investigation into the company over its “business practices, including the prices and fees for tickets to live events sold by Live Nation/Ticketmaster,” the author notes. As Subcommittee chairman Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, claimed in last week’s subpoena, Live Nation has not cooperated with a request for documentation to this point, the author says. “Despite nearly eight months and extensive efforts to obtain voluntary compliance, Live Nation/Ticketmaster has failed to fully comply with PSI’s requests, including refusing to produce certain documents critical to the Subcommittee’s inquiry,” Blumenthal wrote.