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Two former American Airlines employees, Edward C. Ivory Jr. and a co-worker, cooked up scenarios like that to cover their scheme to print counterfeit transportation vouchers for their private customers, to be exchanged for real flights. From as early as July 2005 until at least November 2005, at least 161 people flew on American Airlines using real tickets obtained with fraudulent vouchers made by Ivory and the co-worker, who pocketed real money.
Ivory, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Judge John McBryde's court. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Ivory was a ticket agent, working mostly out of Chicago O'Hare Airport. The co-worker was a flight attendant who flew mainly out of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. They would first sell their customers discounted travel. Then they used the airline's computer system to print counterfeit vouchers in the customers' names, according to court documents.
Those vouchers, justified with made-up stories of overbooked flights and other reasons, could be exchanged for tickets.
"In effect, the defendants were secretly selling travel on American Airlines, without American Airlines' consent, and keeping money for themselves," the indictment reads.
Two former American Airlines employees, Edward C. Ivory Jr. and a co-worker, cooked up scenarios like that to cover their scheme to print counterfeit transportation vouchers for their private customers, to be exchanged for real flights. From as early as July 2005 until at least November 2005, at least 161 people flew on American Airlines using real tickets obtained with fraudulent vouchers made by Ivory and the co-worker, who pocketed real money.
Ivory, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Judge John McBryde's court. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Ivory was a ticket agent, working mostly out of Chicago O'Hare Airport. The co-worker was a flight attendant who flew mainly out of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. They would first sell their customers discounted travel. Then they used the airline's computer system to print counterfeit vouchers in the customers' names, according to court documents.
Those vouchers, justified with made-up stories of overbooked flights and other reasons, could be exchanged for tickets.
"In effect, the defendants were secretly selling travel on American Airlines, without American Airlines' consent, and keeping money for themselves," the indictment reads.
