New York asks Ticketmaster and StubHub to target Broadway ticketing scams

State attorney general Eric Schneiderman requested that websites verify that ticket resellers are licensed after $2.76m settlement with alleged scammers

On the day Hamilton, Broadway's impossibly sold-out show, swept the Tony nominations, the New York state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, announced plans to tackle sky-high ticket prices outside the Great White Way.

Schneiderman, who has already called New York's ticket racket for sports and concerts "a rigged game", has sent formal letters to eBay, which owns StubHub, and Ticketmaster, among others, requesting their participation in a crackdown on ticket sale fraud and illegal purchasing schemes.