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(AP) -- Federal prosecutors have charged five former University of Kansas employees with conspiring to steal more than $2 million in tickets to university athletic events.

Among those charged was Charlette Blubaugh, the former associate athletic director in charge of the ticket office.

Prosecutors say she began stealing season tickets in 2005, then gave them to others to sell. Prosecutors say the employees made between $3 million and $5 million in the scheme.

Information on whether the five have attorneys was not immediately available. Calls to the university were not immediately returned.

Earlier this year, the university released a report detailing the alleged scam that concluded at least $1 million worth of basketball and football tickets had been sold inappropriately to brokers over the past five years.

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