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Live Nation Entertainment 

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Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company, founded in 2010, following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. The company promotes, operates, and manages ticket sales for live entertainment in the United States and internationally. It also owns and operates entertainment venues, and manages the careers of music artists.

Contents

• 1History
  • 1.1Investments and growth
• 2Operating divisions
• 3International
• 4References
• 5External links

History[edit]

In 2009, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, a concert promotion firm and ticketing company, reached an agreement to merge. The new company received regulatory approval and was named Live Nation Entertainment.^[3][4] Michael Rapino, then-CEO of Live Nation, became the new company’s CEO, while Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff was named executive chairman.^[5]

The merger was approved first in Norway and Turkey in 2009.^[6] The United Kingdom's Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the merger, ^[7] but reversed its decision on December 22, 2009.^[6]

The merger was opposed in the U.S. by some regulators, artists, fans, and competing firms, who argued it would reduce competition in the industry and increase ticket costs.^[8][9] Artist Bruce Springsteen was one vocal opponent of the merger at the time.^[10]

On January 25, 2010, the United States Justice Department approved the merger pending certain conditions.^[11] Ticketmaster had to sell ownership of its self-ticketing company, Paciolan,^[11] and license its software to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which would allow it to compete "head-to-head" with Ticketmaster for business.^[12][13] AEG was given the option after five years to buy the software, replace it with something else, or partner with another ticketing company.^[12] Additionally, Live Nation Entertainment was placed under a 10-year court order prohibiting it from retaliating against venues that choose to accept competing ticket contracts.^[13]

Investments and growth[edit]

In 2013, the company acquired Voodoo Music & Arts Experience and announced a joint venture with Insomniac Events, a promoter focused on electronic dance music.^[14][15][16] The company later acquired C3 Presents (2014),^[17] Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (2015),^[18] and Founders Entertainment (2016), the parent company of Governors Ball Music Festival.^[19] In October 2016, Live Nation Entertainment bought AC Entertainment, a Knoxville Tennessee music company, ^[20] as well as several international companies.^[21] The company continued to invest in music festivals and promoters in 2017, purchasing a controlling interest in BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival,^[22] Salt Lake City-based concert promoter United Concerts, ^[23] and CT Touring.^[24] In 2017, Live Nation Entertainment reported revenue of $10.3 billion. ^[25][26] In 2018, the company expanded its concert promotion segment by acquiring a majority stake in a number of companies including Frank Productions,^[27] Emporium Presents,^[28] and Red Mountain Entertainment.^[29]

Also in 2018, the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation following complaints by AEG that Live Nation pressured them into using Ticketmaster and intentionally avoided booking acts for AEG venues.^[30] Live Nation stated that decisions in selecting venues were not punitive, and were instead based on size and management.^[30]

Operating divisions[edit]

Live Nation Entertainment’s business segments are concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising. ^[25] The company promotes and operates live music events and manages artists under its concerts division Live Nation Concerts.^[25] Live Nation Entertainment’s artist management arm, called Artist Nation, is included within its concerts division ^[31][25] and also includes Front Line Management and Roc Nation.^[32] Live Nation Entertainment owns and operates venues, including the House of Blues.^[33] The company sells tickets to live events through Ticketmaster.^[25]

International[edit]

In 2012, the company announced a partnership with Creativeman Productions, based in Tokyo, Japan.^[34]

In June 2013, Live Nation was among those charged with violating Ontario health and safety laws following a stage collapse at a Radiohead concert that killed one crew member.^[35][36] A 2019 inquest returned a verdict of accidental death.^[37]

In August 2015, Live Nation announced it would form Live Nation Germany, to be created in partnership with German promoter Marek Lieberberg. Live Nation Germany would also have oversight over Live Nation events in Austria and Switzerland.^[38]

In March 2016, Live Nation acquired Big Concerts International, South Africa's leading concert promoter.^[39] The following year, the company acquired majority interests in Israeli promoter Blue Stone Entertainment and the UK’s Cuffe & Taylor.^[21]

In May 2018, Live Nation Entertainment acquired a majority stake in Brazil's Rock in Rio festival (including from previous stakeholder SFX Entertainment), with its founder Roberto Medina continuing to manage the festival's operations, and providing consulting to Live Nation.^[40][40][41]

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Maude and Fraud

We actually have laws for Visa Fraud 

When Pete Bennett first realized back in 2002 his resume was being used for Visa Fraud he went to the EEOC.  Likely one of the very first to file discrimination based on National Origin being American. 

By 2014 he was positive people near him were being killed. He filed police reports with the City of Walnut Creek, he even tried running for City Council of Walnut Creek.

He was met with armed officers and escorted from the building making it impossible to file nomination papers. 

U.S. Code § 1546.Fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents

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Whoever knowingly forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely makes any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, or utters, uses, attempts to use, possesses, obtains, accepts, or receives any such visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or falsely made, or to have been procured by means of any false claim or statement, or to have been otherwise procured by fraud or unlawfully obtained; or

Whoever, except under direction of the Attorney General or the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or other proper officer, knowingly possesses any blank permit, or engraves, sells, brings into the United States, or has in his control or possession any plate in the likeness of a plate designed for the printing of permits, or makes any print, photograph, or impression in the likeness of any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit or other document required for entry into the United States, or has in his possession a distinctive paper which has been adopted by the Attorney General or the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the printing of such visas, permits, or documents; or

Whoever, when applying for an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, or other document required for entry into the United States, or for admission to the United States personates another, or falsely appears in the name of a deceased individual, or evades or attempts to evade the immigration laws by appearing under an assumed or fictitious name without disclosing his true identity, or sells or otherwise disposes of, or offers to sell or otherwise dispose of, or utters, such visa, permit, or other document, to any person not authorized by law to receive such document; or

Whoever knowingly makes under oath, or as permitted under penalty of perjury under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code, knowingly subscribes as true, any false statement with respect to a material fact in any application, affidavit, or other document required by the immigration laws or regulations prescribed thereunder, or knowingly presents any such application, affidavit, or other document which contains any such false statement or which fails to contain any reasonable basis in law or fact—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of international terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this title)), 20 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929(a) of this title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense, if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of international terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years (in the case of any other offense), or both.

(b)Whoever uses—

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an identification document, knowing (or having reason to know) that the document was not issued lawfully for the use of the possessor,

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an identification document knowing (or having reason to know) that the document is false, or

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a false attestation,

for the purpose of satisfying a requirement of section 274A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

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This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States, or any activity authorized under title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (18 U.S.C. note prec. 3481).[1] For purposes of this section, the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.

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LinkedIN Witness Retaliation, Bono, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth - Ensuring Pete Bennett remains Homeless

LinkedIN Witness Retaliation, Bono, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth - Ensuring Pete Bennett remains homeless?

Impact Investing is basically tech dominance over access to social media where many resumes, history and work references reside. 

In response to patent litigation filed by Wilson-Sosinia The National Association of Realtors retained Alston Bird to defend the patent challenge. 

In the middle is Pete Bennett who provided a very clear proposal in 2004 to businessman Kevin Keithley of Tren Tech based in Silicon Valley.  Bennett inserted several lines about the voracity of the patent but Keithley likely never read the proposal.  In June 2008 via e-discovery Bennett's proposal popped up. 

By the end of June 2008 it was clear Bennett was under attack, Alston Bird cancelled the testimony and deposition but Bennett was summarily evicted with almost zero cause. 

Perhaps Wilson Sonsini use their omnipotent powers to destroy Bennett for the roughly 400,000 in court costs must have really pissed them off 

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How Keithley vs. National Association of Realtors created a homeless person

The Rise Fund Story hidden from view. 

In a dark file cabinet belonging to the National Association of Realtors there is a proposal presented by Pete Bennett to Kevin Keithley.  

Billionaires’ Ball: Deconstructing TPG’s $2 billion RISE Fund

Talk about raising expectations. The RISE fund scored an Andrew Ross Sorkin exclusive in the New York Times, led by Bono, backed by all-stars on the impact billionaire circuit, and driven by TPG Growth, with more than $8 billion under management.

For all the signals that the big boys are arriving in impact investing, the $2 billion RISE Fund appears to be the biggest. It’s one of the first to put 10-figure capital behind a solid impact strategy. And there are more billions where that came from, if TPG can really deliver impact “alpha” – market-beating financial returns because of, not in spite of, a savvy impact investment thesis.

The fundraising goals for RISE has apparently doubled since a $1 billion fund was first announced in September.  Maya Chorengel of Elevar Equity, which has been tapped by TPG to both develop deal pipeline and raise funds for RISE, has said the day is not far off for a $5 billion fund, once deal tickets and fund sizes can get to the scale needed for big institutional investors. TPG Group en toto manages about $74 billion.  

If Sorkin knows the identity of “at least two large pension funds and one sovereign wealth fund (that) have committed nine figure sums” – he’s not saying. (Send tips.)

Sorkin and TPG’s William E. McGlashan teamed up to ensure nobody was confused about whether RISE was conceding any returns to deliver impact.  Sorkin used an older term, “double-bottom line,” for what has become known as impact investing. He summed up the performance as “mixed results; either investors lost money, or the social impact was negligible or nonexistent.”

Bono himself laid down the gantlet, slamming the rigor of most of impact investing to date. “There is a lazy mindedness that we afford the do-gooders,” Bono told Sorkin. It has become “a lot of bad deals done by good people.”

EARLY ADOPTERS

It’s not clear whether Bono’s unnamed do-gooders but bad dealmakers includes folks like Jeff Skoll, Pierre Omidyar, Richard Branson, Lynne Benioff, Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, all of whom are board members and investors of RISE. The club is an A-list of the kind of Silicon Valley-based, solution-savvy billionaires who are increasingly committing investment capital – not just philanthropic money – to generate social and environmental value.   

Skoll’s Capricorn Investment Group now manages $5 billion in assets. Capricorn has made big bets on satellite-imagery, healthcare diagnostics and cleantech. Skoll took the lead, with TPG Growth’s McGlashan, to enlist Bridgespan Group consultants to design the impact reporting schema.

Laurene Powell Jobs, the head of the Emerson Collective, one of the new breed of non-foundation impact funds, technically an LLC, which can invest in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. With nearly $20 billion, Powell Jobs is one of the world’s wealthiest women, based on holdings in Apple and Disney built by her late husband, Steve Jobs.

Richard Branson, everybody’s favorite globe-trotting impact billionaire, who has his fingers in everything from the Carbon War Room and the B Team to the all-star human rights advocacy group, the Elders.

Reid Hoffman, a founder of LinkedIn, just acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion, making Hoffman’s stake worth nearly $3 billion. Hoffman is an outspoken provocateur, having pledged $5 million to aid veteran’s if President-elect Donald Trump would release his tax returns.

Mellody Hobson is president of Ariel Investments, the $10 billion fund manager based in Chicago that is one of the country’s largest minority-owned investment firm.

Lynne Benioff, who is building the philanthropic complement to husband Marc Benioff’s platform at Salesforce for advocating corporate responsibility.

Mo Ibrahim, the billionaire founder of Celtel International, which is riding the mobile wave sweeping Africa — an historic infrastructure leapfrog that is a key driver of any emerging market investment thesis as falling prices of connectivity and energy open new customers and new opportunities.

Pierre Omidyar, whose Omidyar Network is one of the earliest LLC’s investing as both a foundation and a venture fund. Since 2004, Omidyar network has invested $1 billion and helped drive much of the research and marketing field-building agenda of the impact-investing community. Omidyar has been a longtime investor in funds managed by Elevar Equity, which has been tapped by Rise.

Elevar, which raised its own $74 million fund last year, has been low-key about its activities. (Maya Chorengel of Elevar lays out a good primer on the firm’s investment thesis in this video panel, which also includes Matt Bannick, head of Omidyar Network.)

Bill Gates was not among the publicly announced list, but folks like Hoffman and Branson are also investors in the Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Breakthrough is also pegged as a multi-billion dollar fund and also specifically pegged to meeting specific impact goals, namely, staying below the 2-degree temperature rise limit set by world leaders in the global climate treaty now in force. The Gates Foundation has deployed more than $1 billion in so-called program-related investments in profit-making firms with a clear charitable intent.

MEASUREABLE IMPACT

RISE expects to split its money between U.S. and emerging markets. Domestic investments include healthcare, education and clean energy. Emerging market sectors include financial services, housing and education. Rise claims to have created strict metrics to measure social impact and has hired an outside auditor (but will tie fund manager’s compensation only to financial performance, not impact).

The notion of TPG – or Bono, for that matter – rising in as a white knight to rescue impact investing didn’t sit so well with veterans of the movement to shift capital toward social and environmental progress. 

Use of a failed social impact bond in New York as an example was the kind of apples-and-oranges benchmark that Sorkin would never have used in “serious” business reporting. That bond was backed by Goldman Sachs at the behest of then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but fell short of its goals to reduce the recidivism rate for adolescent offenders at Rikers Island.

FRONTIER CAPITAL

McGlashan cited as an example of the opportunities TPG’s investments in Apollo Tower, a cellphone tower company in Myanmar. TPG began backing Apollo in 2014, before Myanmar emerged from military control. Myanmar went from nearly 0 percent cellphone penetration to 70 percent, accounting for more than 5 percent growth in G.D.P. (Our friends at Unreasonable.is have a good update on Myanmar’s march toward mobile money.)

The company’s value has more than doubled. As for impact? Sorkin vaguely endorses the notion the investment “helped to increase transparency in a country known for tight control of its information, helping the nation take steps toward democracy.” Again, for his serious deal stories, Sorkin would ask for more proof. Interesting tidbit: McGlashan left San Francisco in 2013 and moved to India for a year.

Sorkin didn’t probe deeply on RISE’s investment thesis, but a mashup of Elevar’s approach and the well-documented strategies of Omidyar Network would suggest that it will target emerging middle-class consumers around the world. Importantly, that means families with $10 a day, not the extreme poor with live on under $2 a day. Omidyar laid out the opportunities and risks in “Frontier Capital,” a 2015 report that outlines an approach to investing in businesses serving low- to lower-middle-income people in emerging markets.

Bono tried belatedly to scale back expectations, agreeing to report back in a year or two and “be actually a bit tough on ourselves.” But he also made clear that more is at stake than the success of a single investment fund.

“Capitalism is going up on trial, and I think that it’s clear that putting profit before people is a nonsustainable business model,” Bono told Sorkin. It’s not that capitalism is immoral; it’s amoral. It’s a better servant than master.”

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Energy Terrorism - Millions at risk via Stolen PG&E Maps

Energy Terrorism - Millions at risk via Stolen PG&E Maps

Enough documents stolen from Pete Bennett's laptop is likely in the hands of Terrorist

During a July 2011 excursion to Hillside Covenant Church Pete Bennett, his son Chase Bennett was stopped by CHP Officer Peck Lancaster/Lilac Drive just under the the 680 overpass located in Walnut Creek CA.

Unknown to Bennett was a warrant for his arrest had been issued in regards to his unpaid Child Support.  Unknown to Bennett was the connections between Hillside and former Safeway CEO Steve Burd who was a longtime member of Hillside Covenant Church. 

THE STOLEN PG&E Documents 

The below maps entrusted to Bennett as part of the his contract with PG&E were stored in his car when he arrested.  Church member Bob Britz and Keith Lynds came down from the church and Bennett thinking he could trust his new Church friends handed over his son, car and computers as he was heading to jail.

Unfortunately his son witnessed the arrest of his father.  That was last time he saw his son but later discovered that church members began a campaign of disruption, tactical harassment linked to District Attorney Mark Peterson, his brother Michael Peterson and his connections to Officer Stephen Tanabe recently arrested by the FBI.

This map will be the basis for arguing that the thousands of documents stored on Bennett's laptop match nearly every fire, sniper attacks, wildfire in PG&E Territory are the basis that a full blown terrorism campaign directed at PG&E is now connected to the debtor in possession financing connected to the private equity firms now choking up billions for the prize of the century.

One clear observation is PG&E has a target on their back.  When clear message for Bennett his life has been at risk ever since he was connected to the 9/11 computer virus called NIMDA 

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The Susan Polk Witness Murder and her former cellmate murdered?

Susan Kennedy was a cordial acquaintance from Danville and Walnut Creek 

Susan and Susan Polk were cellmates 

MURDERED IN CONCORD 

KNOWS TONY LARUSSA

Regular Visitor at 

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Walnut Creek 

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