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A number of U.S. auto dealers and dealership sales and F&I personnel were the victims or alleged perpetrators in several major fraud cases this year.
December 30, 2019
Attorneys representing the Sage auto group say Nissan orchestrated the sale of two franchises to a dealer with ties to a Saudi businessman swept up in the Carlos Ghosn Scandal.
December 26, 2019
Attorney and former Army officer John Berry advises auto dealers and other business owners to steer clear of three common but highly insensitive questions many ask of military veterans during the hiring process and at the workplace.
November 6, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a Maryland dealership with offering different credit terms to different customers based on race, an allegation backed by reports from African American and white testers.
October 2, 2019
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says BMW Cleveland violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it terminated two older salesmen and failed to rehire a former service manager.
October 2, 2019
FCA US and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will pay $40 million to settle charges leveled by the SEC, which accused the automaker of misleading investors by falsifying monthly sales reports to maintain the appearance of monthly gains.
September 30, 2019
The office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has charged the 10-rooftop Paul Blanco’s Good Car Co. with credit application fraud, payment packing, and false and deceptive advertising.
September 25, 2019
Shiraaz Sookralli faces 20 years in prison after admitting to charges of fraud and embezzlement relating to a multimillion-dollar scheme to sell nonexistent Porsches from a South Florida dealership.
September 17, 2019
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims a dealer group executive said ‘This is not a lady’s job yet’ to justify failing to retain the only woman on the sales team at a Norman, Okla., Chrysler dealership the group acquired.
September 16, 2019
Mark E. Rooney, an attorney whose practice focuses on consumer litigation defense and government investigations in the financial services industry, has joined the Washington, D.C., office of Hudson Cook LLP.
September 9, 2019
Champion Chevrolet of Reno, Nev., has been sued by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit follows a complaint filed by a female salesperson who says she was bullied out of a job.
September 2, 2019
Former National Independent Automobile Dealers Association leader Andy Gabler and Chad Bednarski, a finance manager at his Pennsylvania dealerships, were indicted on bank and wire fraud charges by a federal grand jury.
August 20, 2019
Dealers and other automotive business owners once again generated more complaints than any other industry in Consumer Federation of America’s latest top 10 list.
August 1, 2019
Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired the assets of United Development Systems Inc., the F&I performance and compliance management provider founded by Randy Crisorio in 1982.
May 15, 2019
This year’s Industry Summit will be held Nov. 4–6 at the New Orleans Marriott, offering the nation’s premier advanced F&I training curriculum, new and returning tracks and events, and free admission for the first 100 dealers and general managers who sign up when registration opens this summer.
May 2, 2019