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About this record: sources, methods and disclosure
What this compilation is, where its material comes from, how each statement is labeled, what was redacted and how to ask for a correction or reply.
The Ryan Burke Public Record is an independent compilation of court records, government registries and published news reports concerning Ryan Burke, a Miami-based concert promoter and talent booker, and the companies through which he has done business, chiefly VEW Live, LLC, Vision Entertainment Worldwide LLC and, since 2026, V12 Group, LLC, the company behind BZR WKND Jamaica. It covers the years 2010 to November 2026. It is published as a website and as a downloadable PDF edition with the same text.
The record is meant for people who need the documented history in one place: journalists covering the 2026 BZR WKND cancellation, artists and agents asked to accept a booking, ticket buyers, venues, lenders and anyone else weighing a business relationship. It does not tell readers what to conclude. Where a court made a finding, the finding is quoted. Where someone made an accusation, it is reported as an accusation. Where Burke answered, his answer is printed next to it.
Disclosure
Several of the court filings in the document library, among them the 2023 deposition and hearing transcripts, the American Airlines records and the May 13, 2024 contempt order, were provided to this publication from the case file of a party to the Broward County lawsuit Kameka Management Solutions, Inc. v. 16260 Saddle Club Road, LLC (No. CACE-22-001852), which is described in Chapter 08. Every one of those documents is a filed court record that any member of the public can obtain from the Broward County Clerk of Courts or, for the bankruptcy filings, from PACER. Readers should weigh that relationship. To make independent checking easy, each statement about that case is tied to a specific filed document and page, and the documents themselves are posted.
The publication is not affiliated with Ryan Burke or his companies, with Cardi B or her representatives, with any Jamaican government agency, or with any news outlet whose reporting is cited.
What the record is built from
The compilation draws on five kinds of material. The first is court filings: orders, judgments, transcripts, motions and exhibits from the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County, Florida; the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois. Federal filings were read through the government’s GovInfo service, CourtListener’s RECAP archive, Justia and PacerMonitor docket reproductions. The second is recorded instruments and docket indexes from the Miami-Dade and Broward County clerks, cited by case number or Official Records book and page so a reader can retrieve the instrument. The third is government and registry records: the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), Town of Davie meeting minutes, trademark records and published statements of the Government of Jamaica. The fourth is news reporting from Jamaican, Caribbean and U.S. outlets, among them The Gleaner, the Jamaica Observer, The Star, CVM Television, DancehallMag, Billboard, Complex, Courthouse News Service and the Miami New Times. The fifth is public social-media posts by the people involved, including Burke’s Instagram account, @vewryan.
Two earlier compilations about Burke circulated privately before this edition. They were used only as leads. Nothing in this record relies on them as a source; any fact they reported is either tied here to the underlying record or labeled as not independently verified.
Every source cited appears in the source index, grouped by type, with a link to the original publisher or custodian.
How each statement is labeled
Key statements carry a label that says what kind of evidence they are.
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Court finding | Something a judge decided or found in a signed order or judgment. Rulings known only from a hearing transcript or a docket entry are labelled “Court order” or “Order”, and registry records are labelled “Public record”. |
| Sworn testimony | Statements made under oath: depositions, affidavits, declarations and hearing testimony. Sworn testimony can be true or false; the label only says it was given under oath. |
| Party allegation | A claim in a complaint, motion, letter or demand that no court has ruled on. Also used for disputed accounts where two sides contradict each other. |
| Press report | What a news organization published, attributed to that organization. |
| Burke’s position | Burke’s own statements, denials and explanations, and the arguments his lawyers made for him. |
Three distinctions run through the record. A lawsuit is not a judgment; many of the cases described here ended in dismissal, settlement or an unknown result, and each chapter says which. A default judgment is entered because a defendant did not respond, not because a court weighed the evidence. And a company’s bankruptcy is not its owner’s personal bankruptcy; the two bankruptcy cases in this record were filed by 2045 SW 127th Avenue, LLC.
On criminal matters the record is specific. The records reviewed contain one criminal adjudication: the May 13, 2024 order of Broward Circuit Judge William Haury Jr. holding Burke in indirect and direct criminal contempt of court for perjury in a civil lawsuit and committing him to three days in the county jail (Chapter 08). Criminal contempt is punished by a judge to protect the court’s own process; it is not a prosecution brought by a state attorney. No criminal charge filed by a prosecutor, arrest record or other conviction of this Ryan Burke was found. Where the word “fraud” appears, it is a cause of action that someone pleaded, a word a court or party used, or the phrase “alleged fraud”.
Dollar amounts are given as they appear in each document at the time it was signed. They are not added together, because judgments, claims, estimates and payments are different things and current balances are generally not public.
Identity standard
Ryan Burke is a common name. A record is attributed to the Ryan Burke in this compilation only when the record itself ties that person to his known companies, business addresses, roles or events. Examples are a judgment against both “Ryan Burke” and VEW Live, LLC, or a filing that names him as the manager of a company he is documented to control. Index entries that match the name but cannot be tied to him in this way are either left out or listed separately with an explicit identity caution. Criminal-records search results for other people of the same name were excluded. The full rules are set out in Chapter 02.
Redaction policy
The court filings in the document library were redacted before posting. The following were permanently removed: telephone and fax numbers; email addresses; dates of birth; Social Security, tax, driver’s licence, passport and traveler numbers; bank, card, account, policy and loan numbers; airline record locators, ticket and loyalty numbers; all information about airline passengers other than Ryan Burke; residential street addresses of individuals, including the home where Burke was served; handwritten signatures of private individuals and the court reporter; and references that could identify minors or household members who are not parties.
The following were left as they appear in the court file: names of parties, judges, lawyers and witnesses; case numbers; dates; dollar amounts; the text of orders and testimony; the address and legal description of the litigated property in Davie, Florida; the names of the limited liability companies; and business or virtual-office addresses that appear in court orders. Burke’s own flight numbers, dates and boarding status are kept because they are the evidence the court relied on.
The redactions cannot be undone. Every page was re-rendered from the court copy as an image with the black boxes burned into the pixels, so none of the original file’s text or hidden data survives; a searchable text layer was then generated by optical character recognition from the redacted image, and document metadata was stripped. Each page was checked by text extraction and character recognition after redaction. The May 13, 2024 contempt order is posted as a facsimile of the copy filed in the bankruptcy court as Docket Entry 10-1 in case 24-14947-PDR and recorded in the Broward County Official Records as Instrument 119575457. Its distribution block of email addresses is omitted.
Federal filings that are already public on official or archival sites, such as the 2013 Lady Gaga summary-judgment order and the 2025 Illinois complaint, are linked at their source rather than re-hosted.
Images
The identification photographs in Chapter 02 are included so that readers can confirm which Ryan Burke is meant. The CVM Television graphic and interview still are reproduced as credited news screenshots for reporting and commentary; CVM Television owns them.
Corrections policy
Errors of fact will be corrected promptly and the correction noted at the foot of the affected chapter with its date. A correction request should identify the statement, explain what is wrong and, where possible, point to a record that shows the correct fact. Requests can be sent to corrections@ryan-burke-bzr-wknd-vew-live.com. If a court later vacates, reverses or modifies an order described here, or a case listed as pending is resolved, the record will be updated to say so.
Right of reply
Ryan Burke, his companies and his lawyers, and anyone else named in this record, may submit a written reply. A reply will be published in full, without editing other than to remove private personal information, alongside the chapter it concerns, and will be linked from Chapter 15. This edition was compiled from the documentary record; Burke’s positions in it are taken from his sworn testimony, his lawyers’ filings and his public statements to news organizations, and Chapter 15 collects them in one place.
Editions
This is the edition of November 11, 2026. The PDF edition carries the same date on its cover. Later editions will note what changed.