A Russian ringleader of a group that fraudulently bought some of the hottest tickets in music, sports and theater by sneaking into StubHub users' accounts pleaded guilty Monday in a scheme involving over $1 million worth of tickets.
Knowing full well that there was plenty of money to be made once the sale of tickets to the mammoth 12-12-12 Benefit Concert for the victims of Hurricane Sandy went on line, scalpers didn’t miss a beat.
Tickets that had a face value of 150 to 2 thousand dollars were immediately put on line at StubHub for multiples of their face value...