NYC Radio: Craig Carton Could Get 5+ Years For Scams

Craig Carton

Former WFAN radio personality Craig Carton, who was convicted of duping investors in a bulk ticket scam for about a year, should get more that 7 years in prison, prosecutors argued in papers filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, according to The NYPost.

Carton’s lawyers had previously called on Judge Colleen McMahon to consider sexual abuse that Carton, who co hosted a morning sports talk with ex-NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason, suffered as a child and his out-of-control gambling problem when he appears for sentencing on April 5.

But prosecutors say the judge should instead focus on the length of time he carried out the scheme and that throughout the scheme, he kept in regular contact with the people he duped and repeatedly lied to them about the status of their investments.

“Carton’s fraud was not the result of an isolated loss of impulse control or a one-time stumble when faced with purported ‘crushing gambling debts,’” reads the government’s sentencing submission, which calls for between 70 and 87 months prison.

According to court papers, Carton took $1 million from a Brooklyn pharmacist who wanted to buy Adele tickets in bulk and instead used most of it to cover his gambling debts.

In another instance, court papers state, Carton and his accomplices misappropriated a combined $3.9 million pilfered from an investment fund — and Carton bragged about getting away with the fraud in an email, saying they had “survived the death bullet.”