Wiseguys escape jail

The three defendants in the $25 million Wiseguy Tickets computer hacking case escaped jail time and have received sentences of probation from a federal judge the USA. A fouth defendant, Faisal Nahdo had fled the US some time earlier. Kenneth Lowson and Kristofer Kirsch each received two years' probation and Joel Stevenson received one year. The trio pleaded guilty late last year to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other charges for their part in the multi-million-dollar ticket scalping scheme by using sophisticated computer programmes (‘bots’) to acquire approximately 1.5 million premium event tickets