A story last week casting doubt on some of the business practices of Ticketmaster and Live Nation has the two companies on a collision course with Congress.
Two U.S. Senators want answers from the two largest ticket sellers when it comes to their secret scalper program uncovered by CBC News and The Toronto Star.
“The allegations of the harms to consumers made in this piece are serious and deserve immediate attention,” wrote Sens. Jerry Moran and Richard Blumenthal in a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino.
Hidden camera videos released by the two news outlets showed Ticketmaster employees admitting to a reliance on “clients” who resell millions of dollars worth of tickets each year through the ticket outlet.
Reps told an undercover reporter that they look the other way when it comes to scalpers using hundreds of Ticketmaster accounts to bypass box-office ticket-buying limits.
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