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   From: beansoup@cnn.com   
      
   His ticket has finally been punched!   
      
   A poster-boy opponent of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program was   
   busted by the feds in an elaborate ticket-scalping scheme —   
   while on probation for an earlier rip-off that preyed on   
   tourists hoping to attend blockbuster Broadway shows and   
   sporting events.   
      
   Angel Ortiz — who publicly blasted stop and frisk and later   
   scored $15,000 from the city through a class-action suit —   
   allegedly used stolen credit card information to buy more than   
   $180,000 worth of tickets to “The Book of Mormon,” “Dear Evan   
   Hansen” and other shows during 2016 and 2017.   
      
   Ortiz, 24, used a variety of aliases to hawk the tickets on   
   Craigslist, where he also offered tough-to-get tickets to the   
   smash musical “Hamilton,” according to White Plains federal   
   prosecutors.   
      
   But some of the ducats he allegedly sold were actually fakes,   
   which one repeat customer found out the hard way by purchasing   
   six for between $3,000 and $3,200.   
      
   Ortiz’s racket also involved several PayPal accounts that he   
   opened with stolen identities and used to accept payments, court   
   papers said.   
      
   Ortiz was previously busted three times for selling counterfeit   
   tickets and was sentenced to five years probation in 2014.   
      
   At the time, he claimed he was going straight by working as a   
   doorman in Midtown but expressed no remorse and actually blamed   
   his victims.   
      
   “I’m their karma and this is my karma — we all got karma,” he   
   said outside court.   
      
   Ortiz also said the people he scammed could have had “a way   
   worse experience.”   
      
   “They could have come to New York and never left,” he said   
   ominously.   
      
   Ortiz was busted by US Postal Inspection Service agents on   
   Tuesday in Kissimmee, Fla., where court papers say the former   
   Bronx resident lives in a gated community about 10 minutes from   
   Disney World.   
      
   He’s charged with six counts of wire fraud, access device fraud   
   and aggravated identity theft, which each carry maximum   
   sentences of 10 to 20 years in prison.   
      
   Ortiz was released without bond pending a future appearance in   
   White Plains federal court.   
      
   He didn’t return a message seeking comment, and the federal   
   defender appointed to represent him in Florida declined to   
   comment.   
      
   A spokeswoman for the Postal Inspection Service urged people to   
   only buy tickets to events from “reputable” sellers.   
      
   “Never forget: if an offer sounds too good to be true, it is,”   
   spokeswoman Donna Harris said.   
      
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