In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the biggest scandal in college sports history, all seven members of the "Kansas Ticket Gang" pleaded guilty to RICO Act indictments. Five went to…mehr
In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the biggest scandal in college sports history, all seven members of the "Kansas Ticket Gang" pleaded guilty to RICO Act indictments. Five went to prison--two were given probation for turning state's evidence.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
H. George Frederickson is the Edwin O. Stone distinguished professor of public administration at the University of Kansas, president emeritus of Eastern Washington University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Kansas Ticket Gang 1. Rodney Gets a Job 2. Lawrence, the University of Kansas and Basketball 3. Basketball 4. Changing Athletics Directors, Coaches and Conferences 5. Tickets: A Brief Biography 6. Charlette Coble and the University of Oklahoma 7. Rodney "Tickets" Jones: Ticket Whisperer of Mass Street 8. Junction City 9. Money and the AD Shuffle 10. Charlette: When Home Becomes Work and Work Becomes Home 11. Perkins 12. Charlette Comes to Town 13. It Worked! 14. Complimentary Tickets and Ticket Ownership 15. The Ticket Gang Scales Up 16. The Greatest Year in the History of KU Athletics 17. Big Trouble Visits Big D 18. Coming Apart 19. Everybody Knows 20. Cooperation 21. Adieu, Lew, Adieu 22. Indictment: A True Bill 23. Here Comes the Judge for the Family Blubaugh 24. Here Comes the Judge for Rodney "Tickets" Jones 25. Judgment for Kassie Liebsch and Ben Kirtland III 26. Reciprocity at Home: Tickets for Tickets 27. The Oklahoma Connection and Poor Accounting 28. Summing Up: The Box Score and the Original Rules Epilogue Appendix A: Code of Ethical Conduct, Kansas Athletics, Inc. Appendix B: Federal Sentencing Guidelines Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Kansas Ticket Gang 1. Rodney Gets a Job 2. Lawrence, the University of Kansas and Basketball 3. Basketball 4. Changing Athletics Directors, Coaches and Conferences 5. Tickets: A Brief Biography 6. Charlette Coble and the University of Oklahoma 7. Rodney "Tickets" Jones: Ticket Whisperer of Mass Street 8. Junction City 9. Money and the AD Shuffle 10. Charlette: When Home Becomes Work and Work Becomes Home 11. Perkins 12. Charlette Comes to Town 13. It Worked! 14. Complimentary Tickets and Ticket Ownership 15. The Ticket Gang Scales Up 16. The Greatest Year in the History of KU Athletics 17. Big Trouble Visits Big D 18. Coming Apart 19. Everybody Knows 20. Cooperation 21. Adieu, Lew, Adieu 22. Indictment: A True Bill 23. Here Comes the Judge for the Family Blubaugh 24. Here Comes the Judge for Rodney "Tickets" Jones 25. Judgment for Kassie Liebsch and Ben Kirtland III 26. Reciprocity at Home: Tickets for Tickets 27. The Oklahoma Connection and Poor Accounting 28. Summing Up: The Box Score and the Original Rules Epilogue Appendix A: Code of Ethical Conduct, Kansas Athletics, Inc. Appendix B: Federal Sentencing Guidelines Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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