Though allegations against Insomniac CEO Pasquale Rotella and Reza Germani were dropped, the two have paid the coliseum back after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor conflict of interest charges. The two, along with then Coliseum manager Todd DeStefano, LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, are all paying up after pleading no contest to Conflict of Interest charges; Rotella has agreed to pay $150,000, Germani $30,000, and DeStefano $500,000. Ridley-Thomas had this to say:
“The shame brought to the Coliseum Commission by the rampant criminal acts of former employees and vendors cannot be overstated. The Coliseum Commission is determined to bring all unlawful actors to justice and make them pay every stolen dollar back to the public…Fairness and equality mandate that all of the restitution paid by the criminal defendants, in this case, be returned to the commission, which is the clear victim of the alleged crimes,”
The corruption case erupted after the 2010 ecstasy death of a 15-year-old, Sasha Rodriguez, who had sneaked into Rotella’s Electric Daisy Carnival at the Coliseum. Politicians questioned whether such events should be held at taxpayer-owned venues, and EDC decamped for Las Vegas in 2011.
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