Ex-airline agent gets prison for ticket scheme
22 July 2011A former Continental Airlines sales agent has been sentenced to prison for a $1 million Ponzi scheme involving the sale of hundreds of fake airline ticket vouchers.
Victoria Scardigno (Skahr-DEE’-noh) said she was “‘beyond remorseful'” as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced her Thursday to 2 years and 5 months.
She had pleaded guilty to wire fraud in February.
source: WSJ
