You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery, a Nobel Peace Prize, and a date with Bobby Knight on the same day than you do of scoring tickets for a sporting event in Boston. Seats are gonna be hard to find when the Patriots and Red Sox have delivered multiple championships this decade, and the Celtics are primed to get their first championship of the 21st century.

So what do you do when you wanna go to the game but seats are hard to come by? If you’re Taylor Roth, a senior inspector at the State Board of Examiners of Plumbers and Gasfitters, looking the other way during inspections is the answer.

A vice president of P.J. Riley & Co. allegedly gave inspector Taylor Roth two tickets to several games from 2004 to 2006 in violation of the state’s conflict of interest law, according to the Ethics Commission.

“Roth received the Red Sox tickets as a reward for permits he had issued and/or inspections that he had performed of P.J. Riley’s work as a senior inspector and/or to influence such official acts that he would perform as a senior inspector,” according to a complaint issued by the Ethics Commission.

What the State Ethics Commission is trying to say is that Roth did what 99 percent of us would do.. He got the hook up. Unfortunately for Taylor Roth, this hook up comes with a visit to the Ethics Commission and the possibility of a $2000 fine for every violation he’s found to have committed.. I bet he’ll hit up a scalper ticket broker next time. He’ll end up paying around the same amount without having to risk his job.

Red Sox tickets allegedly used to reward Big Dig inspector. Courtesy of The Boston Globe

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