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Ex-WFAN Host Craig Carton Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for Ticket Fraud Scheme

He was convicted in November on charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those offenses.

Former WFAN radio host Craig Carton was sentenced Friday to three and a half years in prison for taking part in a ticket fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced. The 50-year-old Carton, who resigned from the show Boomer and Carton in 2017, was convicted in November on federal charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those offenses. “Radio personality Craig Carton solicited investments for his ticket buying scheme by claiming to have an in with the operator of two New York-area arenas and a major concert promotion company,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman. “He talked of his ability to buy blocks of tickets to live events and sell them for a profit on the secondary market. But the talk-show host was all talk. Carton’s purported agreements to buy blocks of tickets were part of an elaborate fiction. Today he has learned that the price of defrauding investors is a term in prison.” Officials said he misappropriated at least $5.6 million. —Olivia Messer