Is Axl Rose Going To War With Ticketmaster & Live Nation??

[Blaze]

Iconic rock star, Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses, is prepping to do battle with Live Nation Entertainment Executive Chairman Irving Azoff. Apparently, the merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster along with Axl Rose's former management company being sold to the newly minted company means that Axl Rose is a wholly owned entity between the largest ticket distribution company, the largest concert promotion company and the largest artist management company in America. Talk about corporate slavery... wow! Check the details of Axl Rose's lawsuit below:


"Ticketmaster recently merged with Live Nation, the largest concert promoter in the United States. Azoff is Chairman of the newly merged entity, Live Nation Entertainment. The U.S. Department of Justice challenged the merger on the grounds that it would create a monopoly – and violate the federal anti-trust laws – in the sale of ticketing services to major concert venues in the U.S.," Axl Rose's lawsuit states. "The DOJ allowed the merger to go forward only after the parties entered into a stringent consent decree which precluded the newly merged entity including Azoff from, among others, abusing its position in the market to impede competition."

Azoff created the artist management company Front Line Management, which he sold to Ticketmaster prior to the merger, and he managed Guns N' Roses for a while under that umbrella.

The lawsuit continues, "Azoff now controls the trifecta of (1) artist management, (2) concert and touring promotion and (3) ticket sales. Azoff decides and manipulates what artists he wants to promote through favorable touring deals. He uses his power to punish artists and harm their careers if they do not follow his orders. That is what happened here."

AxlRose claims Azoff sabotaged tours and record sales; allegedly lied about a tour with Guns N' Roses and Van Halen; and then resigned as manager but expected compensation. Axl Rose also accuses Azoff of "spite and vindictiveness" for using Axl Rose's adopted name, William Bailey, in the first lawsuit, knowing that it would cause Rose "emotional distress and harm."

If you had the privilege to advise Axl Rose, what would you tell him to do?

http://dimewars.com/Blog/Is-Axl-Rose-Going-To-War-With-Ticketmaster---Live-Nation--.aspx?BlogID=9ec6dcb3-8d60-4a06-a1b5-8e808bf92570

[LoungeMachine]

If you had the privilege to advise Axl Rose, what would you tell him to do?

http://dimewars.com/Blog/Is-Axl-Rose-Going-To-War-With-Ticketmaster---Live-Nation--.aspx?BlogID=9ec6dcb3-8d60-4a06-a1b5-8e808bf92570

NOT to line the pockets of more lawyers in a battle he'll never win, either in the courts or in the arena of public opinion. Yes the TicketBastard / Slave Nation merger was evil, but he's going to look like an idiot trying to play the victim.

STFU, put the original band back together, or retire.

:gulp:

[Anonymous]

If you had the privilege to advise Axl Rose, what would you tell him to do?

Well, innit obvious?

I'd advise him to FACK ORF, PARKY!!!

Cheers! :bottle:

[chefcraig]

Hey Axl, in order to save time and to see how this will pan out, have someone on your staff Google the words "Pearl Jam VS Ticketmaster". :(

[Igosplut]

I think old Wacxles got an exaggerated view of his station in the music world...

Maybe he'll adopt a symbol like Prince did in the 90's to protest... Like a big runny pussy...

[chefcraig]

I think old Wacxles got an exaggerated view of his station in the music world...

Maybe he'll adopt a symbol like Prince did in the 90's to protest... Like a big runny pussy...

I'd have thought due to Axl's confused mental state, the perfect symbol would be an inverted question mark. Unfortunately for him, Blue Oyster Cult have been using it for decades now. http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-mad-smileys-264.gif (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/Free-Flag-Smileys/)

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7073/blueoystercultagentsoff.jpg (http://img39.imageshack.us/i/blueoystercultagentsoff.jpg/)

[FORD]

AxHole doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning, of course. Though he is absolutely right that this merger is bullshit and should not have been allowed (same thing with the pending Comca$t/NBC merger and many others in recent years)

Best thing AxHole could do for public support is obvious - put the REAL Guns N Roses back together. Get Slash, Duff, and Izzy back on stage with you, and you'll have the national medias attention, and a few million returning fans who might actually give a shit. And build a public opposition to this merger from that, as you leave Ticketbastard/LiveClearChannelNation out of the "reunion tour of the decade", even if it means you have to play bars and state fairs because the bastards locked you out of the arenas.

[Blaze]

Tavis: Tell me why.

Prince: Well, because I knew I was right. We talked about this in our very first interview and conversation together. It's obvious now that artists are supposed to own their master recordings. In the future, it'll be unconscionable to even think you can take somebody's creation and claim ownership of it.

See, unfortunately, this discussion's going to start to barrel into a discussion about the human genome and the DNA and all the rest of it. When it gets there, then we're going to be in the deep water. See, so it's better to start the conversation now before we get into God talk.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200904/20090427_prince.html?vid=tavi08s25bbq8e1#video

[Blaze]

http://babypowerdyke.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/prince-slave1.jpg

[Igosplut]

Best thing AxHole could do for public support is obvious - put the REAL Guns N Roses back together. Get Slash, Duff, and Izzy back on stage with you, and you'll have the national medias attention, and a few million returning fans who might actually give a shit. And build a public opposition to this merger from that, as you leave Ticketbastard/LiveClearChannelNation out of the "reunion tour of the decade", even if it means you have to play bars and state fairs because the bastards locked you out of the arenas.

Can you imagine if the numbnuts put the original back together and VH took MA back and they (managed) to tour as rumored?? (allegedly lied about a tour with Guns N' Roses and Van Halen)

I know the egos would never work but imagine the buzz on that...

[binnie]

Hey Axl, in order to save time and to see how this will pan out, have someone on your staff Google the words "Pearl Jam VS Ticketmaster". :(

This is the truth.

Unfortuntely, Axl is utterly incapable of living with not getting his own way.

[Blaze]

It is not 1994 any longer~
Research notes follows.

[Blaze]

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/pearl-jam-vs-ticketmaster-a-holy-war-on-reaiity/#
May 1995 • Volume: 45 • Issue: 5

-The Rolling Stone article by Neil Strauss and Tom Dunkel provides some examples: "Ticketmaster, it’s claimed, keeps ticket sales organized and revenue high. This is often at the expense of fans, however. The service charges that Ticketmaster adds to tickets range from $3 to $6 and can add more than 30 percent to a ticket’s face value." The suggestion here, that Ticketmaster’s activities make fans worse off, involves an economic fallacy. The error, known to economists as the physical fallacy,"[3] is examined below.
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No longer applicable with modern computers.

comment of note-
Comment by Mike on 23 April 2010:
I’m frustrated by Ticketmaster, especially considering opportunity costs as this author mentioned. The math never works out on my end when something goes wrong – the artist should eat the fees when they cancel, not us. Ticketmaster is essentially a datacenter and an application these days – if there was one application to make open source, this would be it.

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The "Physical Fallacy"

The article contains an interesting statement by one of Pearl Jam’s guitarists, Stone Gossard: "Our band, which is determined to keep ticket prices low, will always be in conflict with Ticketmaster." To judge the truth-value of that statement, a discussion of the "physical fallacy" is in order.

The basic point is that economic value doesn’t just depend on a good’s physical features; value can also depend on where or when the good is available. By bringing a good from the producer to the consumer, a middleman can add value to that good despite the fact that the middleman has not changed (added anything to) its physical shape. Let’s consider what value Ticketmaster might be adding to the tickets they convey.

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Economies of Scale

-If you believe that having "competition" from other ticket services would drive down the price of Ticketmaster’s fees, you are wrong. Why? Economies of scale. Ticketmaster was able to "monopolize" ticket sales because they were the most efficient in utilizing economies of scale. Their larger network of outlets operates at lower cost per ticket sold than smaller firms could manage.

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Not the case any longer any computer kiosk can be an outlet.

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-Antitrust laws are at war with economic reality. The only way that Ticketmaster could have allowed the "little guys" to remain in business would have been to raise their fees to match the inefficiencies of these "little guys." Such "price fixing" is no favor to consumers, and is also illegal in the screwy world of antitrust. So what were Ticketmaster’s options? Keep prices artificially high and be sued under antitrust statutes for "price fixing," or make use of economies of scale and be sued under those same antitrust laws for "intending to monopolize."

-A coercive monopoly, i.e., a seller whose potential competitors are excluded by government force, can raise prices and limit quantities with impunity. The post office is a good example. But Ticketmaster is not backed by the government, and competitors could enter the field if they had a better method or organization. The methods of "coercion" described by complainants against Ticketmaster are not coercion at all. Ticketmaster has a right not to deal with anyone it does not wish to
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Do they receive any federal or state funding? (loans, tax instinctive, employee subsidy)

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Comments of note from the article.

Pingback by This not their first rodeo | Manage The Tour on 30 December 2009:
[...] of the most visible was Pearl Jam vs. Ticketmaster in 1994. This opinion piece from May 1995 gives an alternative viewpoint, although I question his crossover of Ticketmaster’s [...]

This is not their first rodeo
December 30, 2009

This won’t be the first time Ticketmaster meets the Department of Justice. The most comprehensive history of Ticketmaster (through about 2001) seems to live here, but we’ve also given you a sampling of previous antitrust suits put up against Ticketmaster:

One of the most visible was Pearl Jam vs. Ticketmaster in 1994. This opinion piece from May 1995 gives an alternative viewpoint, although I question his crossover of Ticketmaster’s convenience fees into production budgets. Maybe the club/arena tours I’ve been on have left me naive to stadium artists getting a taste of the Ticketmaster fees, but I’ve settled 100’s of shows that have been sold through Ticketmaster assuming the promoter was receiving FACE VALUE on all tickets. If they weren’t, then they’re in serious breach of contact territory. Perhaps I should settle more carefully next time!

This general flaming of Ticketmaster also gives us some perspective and some links to more information, if The Freeman piece didn’t sit well with you

In 1999, they made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where they ruled that the case didn’t have merit because it’s was brought by consumers, not the promoters who enlist Ticketmasters service.

The American Antitrust Institute has a piece reacting to that ruling.

And just last year, there was some anti-trust action surrounding Ticketmaster’s acquisition of TicketsNow
http://managethetour.com/this-not-their-first-rodeo/

Comment by Jay Fraz on 26 August 2009:
Of course the entire argument rests on the assumption that Ticketmaster is CURRENTLY the most efficient delivery method. After all, if I thought I could create a better system than ticketmaster, not only would I have to start selling tickets, but I would also have to build the venues as all larger one are currently exclusively contracted to Ticketmaster. Ticketmasters position IS economically ineffecient 1) Ticketmaster has created significant barriers to entry in their market due to their size, smaller companies can not contract large venues 2) a more efficient company could NOT compete with Ticketmaster without actually building the venues for the purpose of competition, thus creating a significant barrier to entry, thus allowing ticketmaster to operate inefficiently and still crush the competition without competing because of *gasp* using economic principles to make more money and not have to compete. Look what science has done.

Comment by jose on 5 February 2009:
The Suzy example is a flawed one because it assumes that there is no other company out there that would be willing to sell her the tickets. Even without a third party seller, the box offices would create their own. That has actually happened with Broadway shows.

[Blaze]

http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/21.ashx

Bert Foer on the Appeal of Ticketmaster: an AAI column

ON THE APPEAL OF TICKETMASTER

2/15/1999

Albert A. Foer
American Antitrust Institute

FTC: WATCH, February 15, 1999

Because the venues were in contract with Ticketmaster, one might argue that they were co-conspirators. This possible approach, too, is fought by the Government. First, it says that the failure of the plaintiffs to name co-conspirators or join them as defendants is crucial. "If the direct purchaser [the venue] is not a party to the indirect purchaser’s suit against a monopolist, any finding that the direct purchaser conspired with the monopolist would have no preclusive effect in a subsequent action by the direct purchaser." Hence, there could be the type of double recovery that the Illinois Brick rule was created to avoid.

But put this into reality. Assume that the consumers are awarded money against Ticketmaster on a co-conspiracy theory without co-conspirators being named or joined as defendants. Ticketmaster would have to pay the entire damages. Could the venues turn around and sue Ticketmaster for monopolization? They would have no motivation to do so, except possibly to argue that more tickets would have been sold in the absence of Ticketmaster’s monopoly pricing – and this would represent a different type of damage. Moreover, the Government’s position that the plaintiff must name every co-conspirator as a co-defendant could have the effect of allowing nationwide antitrust violations to go unremedied since no court would have jurisdiction or venue over all the co-conspirators.

[Blaze]

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/06/arts/us-ends-ticketmaster-investigation.html?fta=y

U.S. Ends Ticketmaster Investigation
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: July 6, 1995
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The Justice Department announced yesterday that it was closing its investigation into complaints of anti-competitive practices by Ticketmaster. The computerized ticketing giant had been under Federal inquiry and the focus of Congressional hearings since last year, when the Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam charged Ticketmaster with cutting the group out of bookings in a dispute over fees.

The decision to close the case without action caught Ticketmaster by surprise, a spokesman in Los Angeles said. There was no immediate reaction from Pearl Jam, either, which just last week canceled its national tour over continued booking problems and then reinstated two dates, one through Ticketmaster.

Word of the decision came in a two-sentence announcement after the regular close of business. It said: "The Department of Justice announced today that it has informed Ticketmaster Holdings Group Inc., that it is closing its antitrust investigation into that firm's contracting practices. The department will continue to monitor competitive developments in the ticketing industry."

There was no further explanation of what, if anything, the inquiry had turned up and why it was ending. In 1991, the Justice Department approved Ticketmaster's acquisition of its major competitor, Ticketron, creating what is now an industry colossus that sells more than $1 billion in tickets annually.

The investigation began after Pearl Jam charged in May 1994 that efforts to price its tickets under $20 were being undermined by Ticketmaster's high markups. Ticketmaster countered that the price could be kept low if the band cut its share. But with Ticketmaster dominating sales of some two-thirds of the 10 million seats in the large arenas, Pearl Jam said it was stymied in arranging alternative sales. The band charged that it was being boycotted by Ticketmaster, an allegation raised by the band members Jeff Ament and Stone Grossard last July in hearings of the House Government Operations subcommittee.



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Why was the case closed?

Word of the decision came in a two-sentence announcement after the regular close of business. It said: "The Department of Justice announced today that it has informed Ticketmaster Holdings Group Inc., that it is closing its antitrust investigation into that firm's contracting practices. The department will continue to monitor competitive developments in the ticketing industry."

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Who has the case now?

Who,what,why,where,when and how~

What was the atmosphere of the Justice department?
Why was the case shut?
Where are the people associated with the case now?
When has the department of justice investigated the ticketing industry and or the "industry" for small breaches?
How were these cases handled?


Was corruption involved?

[Diamondjimi]

Axl Rose also accuses Azoff of "spite and vindictiveness" for using Axl Rose's adopted name, William Bailey, in the first lawsuit, knowing that it would cause Rose "emotional distress and harm."



http://www.joebrower.com/PHILE_PILE/PIX/FR/anim_CryBaby.gif

LMFAO !!!!

http://ustorzit.com/img/lol/lol_.gif

[Blaze]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster#Prominent_lawsuits

On April 28, 1997, Ticketmaster sued Microsoft over its Sidewalk service for allegedly deep linking into Ticketmaster's site. The suit was settled after a two-year legal battle in which Ticketmaster claimed that linking to specific pages on an Internet site without permission was an unfair practice.
In 2003, the popular jam band String Cheese Incident and its associated booking group, SCI Ticketing, sued Ticketmaster arguing that Ticketmaster's exclusive use contracts and most US venues was a breach of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. This lawsuit was settled in 2004 with no publicity of the settlement terms[28]
In 2009, Ticketmaster faced several lawsuits across North America, claiming they conspired to divert tickets to popular events to its ticket brokering website TicketsNow, in which the same tickets were sold at premium prices.[29] This also raised the ire of rock legend Bruce Springsteen, who said he was 'furious' at Ticketmaster,[30] and "...the one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a near monopoly situation in music ticketing".[31]

[Blaze]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster#Ticket_sales_market

Ticketmaster is the primary ticket seller for 27 of the 30 NHL teams and 28 of 30 NBA teams, but in 2005, Major League Baseball acquired Ticketmaster rival Tickets.com. Some analysts[who?] expect MLB to stop using Ticketmaster for the sale of its approximately 100,000,000 baseball tickets per year once current contracts with Ticketmaster have expired. Thus, when the Ticketmaster contracts end, finding sources for primary or "box office" tickets online may become a difficult task and vertical ticket search engines may become indispensable for finding primary ticket outlets.

Also of concern to the company is declining sales in the highly profitable concert business. Off by double-digit percentages in 2005 from 2004, the summer concert season is a major profit center for the company with its high per-ticket prices and accompanying high service fees.

Ticketmaster has had only limited success in the secondary ticketing market. In September 2003, Ticketmaster announced plans to sell tickets in internet auctions, which would bring the price of tickets closer to market prices, but its market share compared to that of eBay or Stubhub remains small, and Internet auctions are still a relatively minor part of its business. Indeed, since around the time of the 2003 announcement, Ticketmaster has lost the lead in the secondary ticketing market to new entrants like Stubhub, who have developed a popular and effective person-to-person market for tickets.

Recently, Ticketmaster President Sean Moriarty appeared on a story about the ticketing business on NPR and pleaded for legislation that would make the selling of tickets from person to person illegal except through Ticketmaster's own product for this purpose.[14] Ticketmaster established the Ticketmaster Ticketexchange to try to compete with Stubhub, their main tagline being that tickets are 100% guaranteed to be authentic, since they are sold through the season ticket holder's account. (Some NFL teams require people to be on the waiting list in order to use the service. The New England Patriots, New York Giants and New York Jets require waiting list memberships.)

In Canada, Ticketmaster is trying to overturn anti-scalping legislation that is in place in some provinces. They are lobbying the Ontario and Manitoba governments to review rules banning the resale of tickets.[15] The Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, stated on March 23, 2009 that his government is planning to introduce legislation which would prevent Ticketmaster from reselling tickets through its TicketsNow website after they would not agree to do so when asked by the Province.[16]

Also in Canada, front page news in early January 2008 was a story about how a show for AC/DC in Vancouver was sold out in minutes, only for tickets to be available for higher prices on TicketsNow. The resale site also charged up to $1,199 for a $44 face-value ticket to a recent Killers concert in Toronto — roughly a 2,500 per cent markup.[17]

In an article by the CBC, Ticketmaster has been quoted as saying
"You and I both know there is a thriving ticket-broker industry... so the law is really a fiction... We very strongly feel the law needs to be modernized to reflect the reality of internet commerce. By keeping a price cap in place, you're really just driving the [resale] business into the shadows."[18]

Ticketmaster developed, in the late summer of 2009, a new way to resell tickets that atttempted to shut out brokers and scalpers.[19] This new system relies on a "paperless" ticketing platform, which makes customers prove their purchase by showing a credit card and ID.[19] Paperless tickets account for fewer than 1 percent of all ticket sales.[20]

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Interesting

[Blaze]

New subject~
Department of Justice
State of affairs.
Past and present.

[Blaze]

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000163

May 28, 11:56 AM, 2007
The Corruption Within Justice
By Scott Horton

I just returned from a conference on counter-terrorism issues convened in Europe where the United States was represented by a delegation of very senior figures from the Department of Justice. The experience reminded me that there are committed professionals, individuals with integrity, still there. We should have sympathy for them, for these times must be very difficult. They deserve leadership committed to the law and the Constitution, and most importantly, to the concept of justice. But the recent scandal surrounding the United States attorneys has pointed a powerful searchlight into the Department’s leadership and has revealed levels of political corruption and abuse that have been unknown in our country in modern times. Those who are concerned about our country, its reputation for justice and the integrity of its institutions cannot be indifferent to these developments.

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Article worth a reread and update.

Not any historical info on the DoJ. - 1990's

[Blaze]

Very unreliable souse due to possible agenda and bias.
Good data mining source. Double check all docs.

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/letter_list_master.html

March 23, 2009, certified letter to New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, relating:

FBI murders perpetrated with organized crime and Mafia figures. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)


March 24, 2009, certified letter to New York State Inspector General Joseph Fisch, relating to the above. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)


March 7, 2009, certified letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. making him aware of the corrupt activities in his area of responsibilities and the catastrophic consequences arising from the misconduct. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)


March 7, 2009, certified letter to President Barack Obama, meeting him aware of the serious charges. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)

February 22, 2009, faxes and letters to over 50 members of the House and Senate, making them aware of these corrupt activities and the consequences. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) List of the members of Congress receiving the material.


February 6, 2009, letter to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. The significant of that letter arises from the fact that he protected high Department of Justice personnel by dropping four murder charges against former FBI supervisory Lindley DeVecchio, as if on cue, under highly suspicious circumstances. That was done after the sworn testimony of one of the key witnesses, Linda Schiro was given. He falsely charged that her testimony about murders involving her common-law husband, Gregory Scarpa Sr. and FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio. Subsequent to that, an independent investigation by a retired judge held that her testimony was highly creditable. That official report required that the murder charges be refiled. Hynes never responded to that letter. If he had, it would have provided additional support to the belief that he obstructed justice so as to protect key FBI-DOJ personnel. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)


February 1, 2009, certified letter to New York Government David Paterson. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)

[Blaze]

Definition of corruption

‘Corruption is any course of action or failure to act by individuals or organizations, public or private, in violation of law or trust for profit or gain.’


http://www.interpol.int/Public/Corruption/IGEC/Default.asp

http://www.interpol.int/images/ICPOLogoWeb.gif;pve6ec751501077b31

[Blaze]

Source
http://www.interpol.int/Public/Corruption/Partners/default.asp



International Association of Prosecutors
http://www.interpol.int/Public/corruption/partners/logo/internationalAssociationP.jpg


Address

Hartogstraat 13
2514 EP
The Hague
The Netherlands

Telephone

+31 70 3630345/52

Email

sg@iap.nl.com
info@iap.nl.com

Website

www.iap.nl.com/

Description

The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) is a non-governmental and non-political organization. Its creation was in response to the rapid growth in serious transnational crime, particularly drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud. There was a perceived need for greater international co-operation between prosecutors and for faster and more efficient mutual assistance, asset tracking and other international co-operative measures.
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Tiri

http://www.interpol.int/Public/corruption/partners/logo/tiri.jpg
Address

Head Office
3rd floor Downstream Building
1 London Bridge
London SE1 9BG

Telephone

+ 44-20-7022 1905

Email

info@tiri.org

Website

www.tiri.org/

Other

Tiri aims to raise integrity standards in specified institutions around the world. We seek to achieve this by facilitating a growing global network of reform leaders, specialists, and policy practitioners informed by objective and reliable evidence.
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[Blaze]

http://www.interpol.int/Public/ccf/acces.asp
Requests for access to INTERPOL's files are processed in conformity with the Commission's Operating Rules


Free access free of charge

Access to INTERPOL's files is free and free of charge: anybody may request access to the Organization's files without fear of his/her request being used for the purposes of international police and judicial co-operation (see the Commission's Annual Report for 2002, 4.3.1). The Commission's files are confidential and requests are not recorded in INTERPOL's files. The Commission may nevertheless be obliged to communicate certain items of information to the INTERPOL General Secretariat or the National Central Bureaus so that the request can be processed.

The Commission is unable to guarantee that information communicated by requesting parties will remain confidential unless the information is sent to it directly by post (see Contacting the Commission).



Making a request

[Blaze]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AfQPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pYwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=justice%20department%20corruption&pg=6646%2C380795

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AfQPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pYwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=justice%20department%20corruption&pg=6646%2C380795
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Two months after prosecutors abandoned the criminal conviction of former senator Ted Stevens, the Justice Department unit that polices public corruption remains in chaos, coping with newly discovered evidence that threatens to undermine other cases while department leaders struggle to reshuffle the ranks.

William Welch and Brenda Morris, senior managers in the department's Public Integrity Section who supervised the case against the Alaska Republican, have been moved into other roles following the transfer this month of two of their subordinates, who worked on lengthy investigations of Alaskan influence peddling, according to four sources.

At the same time, document-sharing lapses that provoked the Stevens turnaround are also affecting other bribery prosecutions in the state, prompting authorities to take the extraordinary step of releasing two Alaska lawmakers from prison late last week. A new team of government lawyers and FBI agents is reviewing thousands of pages of evidence, trying to assuage the concerns of judges and fielding complaints from defense attorneys.

[Blaze]

FY2008 Number of defendants in cases filed
(Results for Chapter 15 - Claims and services in matters affecting govt. )
Title and Section(s) 2008
18 286 71
18 287 173
Total 244
Table created on: 21-May-10, 01:06 AM
Citation: BJS' Federal Justice Statistics Program website (http://fjsrc.urban.org)
Data Source: Administrative Office of U.S. Courts' criminal data (as standardized by the FJSRC)
http://fjsrc.urban.org/tsec.cfm

[Blaze]

That's enough for now.
My observations forth coming

[78/84 guy]

Yawn !!!! Poor ASXALE. How about calling your'e band something else than Gn'R !!!! Fuck it is.

[Blaze]

OMG, just got the claims, FLM's cliam reads like a school girl wrote it.

Dear Axl,
I love you!!! Hearts and kisses! Guns N' Roses is one of the most popular and famous rock bands of all times. You are like the king of the universe! Your band has sold more than 100 million records, had bunches of Top 10 hits, sold out arenas and stadiums worldwide. And OMG won freaking tons of awards and even gotten accolades! You are freaking awesome, everybody says you redefined rock ~N~ roll. You freaking reached icon. You inspire me and freaking so many others. Rose, you are the legendary lead vocalist and songwriter of freaking Guns N Roses! OMG! You are one of rock's all-time greatest people of history.

PS. Can I have a braid? :biggrin:
PSS. If I can't have a part of you can I fuck you?:hee:



:lmao:

[Blaze]

Wow, section 2 blatantly admits his planned exploitations.

[Blaze]

Section 3 He admits the DoJ is leery of him

[Blaze]

Opps, I am still reading the cross compliant. :0

[Blaze]

Ummm.... :umm:
Where is Azoff's Complaint?


Anyone have a link to Azoff's (DBA Front Line Management, Delaware) complaint?

[Blaze]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4630930216_a9aff9b3e0_o.jpg

[Blaze]

Hmpf! Don't you wish you could pray into evidence those sock-puppets?
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[Blaze]

<object width="580" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LrncOgE2Oy4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LrncOgE2Oy4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object>

[Blaze]

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f256300/256322.pdf
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f256300/256324.pdf
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/testimony/256415.pdf
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480aaf3fa

Enough for now

[GAR]

If you had the privilege to advise Axl Rose, what would you tell him to do?

What he's already going forward in with doing away with old contracts that aren't valid within a newly-formed entity.

Agents and labels have been getting away with this line for years, now lets see the court side the same way they've ruled on = specifically where a band or a group has a member leave, or the group dissolvefor some years then discover the manager or label have impounded all or some rights to the band under the guise of "entity change" because whereas they signed an "act" and that act no longer exists as three of four guys and so-on.. likewise, we should see this fucking "management act" no longer seen as the act that signed into agreement because now it's not just Irving Azoff the Niceguy Mr Music Helping Freindsman anymore, he's a fucking behemoth entity-gobbling corporation that runs all possible venues worth anything to a touring band.

I mean what else can it be seen as? And who cares how the contract is written - does anyone see Axl signing a contract when informed of Azoffs intent to form a multimarketing conglomerate he'd be subject to at a lesser payrate?

Already it's disgusting LiveNation sells tickets in venues with hidden seats owned by the venue and neither discloses them to the venue OR the fucking fans! That's bullshit... you think you're in the front row of the next bloc of seats down from the stage only to discover a whole invisible row four deep in front of your face, and THAT ain't fair is it>?

I see Axl winning most of the points he's asking for if not all. Winner=Axl.