Man pleads guilty in airline-booking scam
A Georgia man who posed as an airline employee to make cut-rate reservations, then resold the tickets for thousands of dollars, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Gilbert Myers Jr., 38, of Atlanta, entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. He faces up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing hearing scheduled for April 30.
In a plea agreement, Myers acknowledged he fraudulently booked hundreds of flights on United Airlines, JetBlue Airways and other carriers.