Wichita ? A federal judge has moved up the sentencing date for the former University of Kansas consultant caught up in the school’s ticket scalping scandal.

Forty-six-year-old Thomas Blubaugh, of Medford, Okla., is now due in federal court April 11 to learn his fate for his part in a $2 million conspiracy involving illegal sales of athletics tickets by key officials.

His wife, former associate athletic director Charlette Blubaugh, was in charge of the ticket office. She has admitted she began stealing tickets in 2005, giving them to other employees to sell to third parties in violation of university policy.

Charlette Blubaugh will be sentenced April 14 — the day her husband was initially due for sentencing as well.