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O'Fallon Man Gets 2 Years for Ticket Fraud
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say an O'Fallon man who fraudulently sold more than $100,000 worth of 2006 World Series tickets on eBay is going to prison for two years.

At his sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, 34-year-old Timothy Kebel was also given three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $26,259 in restitution to his victims.

U.S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton tells the Belleville News-Democrat that Kebel bid on sets of Major League Baseball playoff and World Series tickets in online auctions, paying for them with a credit card. He then filed false claims with the credit card companies stating he never received the tickets, which he then proceeded to resell online.

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02 04 11 by Newsroom
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