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A ticket broker convicted of fraudulently<\/a> selling tickets to Chicago White Sox baseball games has been sentenced to one and a half years in federal prison.<\/p>\n During a hearing, the judge sentenced Bruce Lee, 35, to the time in prison after a jury in October had found him guilty.<\/p>\n The judge rejected lawyers\u2019 arguments for probation that Lee had actually helped the Major League Baseball (MLB) team, as he had put more concession-buying fans in seats at games.<\/p>\n An indictment was made public in 2020 and alleged that Lee had made more than $860,000 (\u00a3632,000\/\u20ac744,000) through his brokerage, Great Tickets, by fraudulently selling nearly 35,000 tickets for White Sox games.<\/p>\n Lee sold these tickets over four baseball seasons between 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said that two now-former White Sox ticket sales booth staffers, James Costello and William O\u2019Neil, created thousands of discounted and complimentary tickets in exchange for money.<\/p>\n These were generated without the required vouchers, with Lee then going on to sell the tickets through online resale platform, StubHub.<\/p>\n According to reports from the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, US District Judge James Kennelly also ordered Lee to pay $74,650 in restitution to the White Sox and his co-defendants, and to personally give up about $450,000 of his dishonest gains.<\/p>\n Image: Jose Francisco Morales<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n