Man gets federal prison time for conning airlines out of $600K in unauthorized ‘waivers and favors’ scheme

A Florida man was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for his participation in a scheme where he and others would fraudulently manipulate airline bookings, including ones at Hollywood Burbank Airport, the FBI says. Federal of…
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