Chicago White Sox Ticket Scheme Warrants Prison Term, DOJ Says

Feb. 4, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

A Chicago ticket broker convicted of defrauding the White Sox baseball team of more than $1.2 million in stolen tickets should serve between four and five years in prison, prosecutors told a federal court in Illinois.

Federal prosecutors Thursday asked Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to sentence Bruce Lee to 46 to 57 months in prison and order Lee to make a lump-sum payment of at least $1.47 million, or, in the alternative, a substantial partial payment to the White Sox.

Lee, the owner of Great Tickets Inc., was found ...

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