WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released a Minority staff report today, entitled, "So Casually Cruel: How Ticketmaster's Monopoly Supercharges Prices and Fees (https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/library/files/2026-03-16-minority-staff-report-so-casually-cruel-how-ticketmasters-monopoly-supercharges-prices-and-fees/)," revealing new details about how Ticketmaster exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to grow its monopoly over live event ticketing and make concert-going unaffordable.

PSI's report concludes a years-long investigation into Ticketm...