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Promoter Sentenced to Four Years Over Deadly Stampede at Steve Aoki Show

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Miguel Ángel Flores, the Spanish promoter behind a 2012 Steve Aoki concert where five people died following a crowd stampede, has been sentenced to the maximum penalty of four years in prison, El Mundo reports. Seven of the 14 other defendants—mostly operators of the event-security firms contracted for the show—were convicted of crimes including negligent homicide and manslaughter. The final seven people named in…