A group of senators is urging a federal judge to closely scrutinize Live Nation‘s settlement of the Justice Department‘s antitrust case, alleging that revelations “point toward a deal made in response to political
pressure rather than the public interest.”
The letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian comes after a jury deliberates following a five-week trial. A group of states pressed forward with the trial, despite the Justice Department settlement.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and other senators wrote in the letter, “This settlement appears to be part of a larger pattern of
Justice Department officials reportedly overruling antitrust enforcers for political reasons.”
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They cited the ouster of Gail Slater, who led the DOJ Antitrust Division, in February, just weeks before the settlement was reached. They noted the earlier ouster of Principal Deputy Assistant
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