Convinced he was framed for financial crimes in Japan, former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn somehow slipped past surveillance and fled to his home in Lebanon.
Amir Bakhtiari will spend 54 months in federal prison and faces deportation to Iran after pleading guilty to embezzling $6 million by paying phony advertising invoices and unearned bonuses.
Noncompliant and outright illegal behavior by dealers, managers, and staff have generated headlines throughout the year. Less heralded are the instances in which dealership personnel took action that led to arrests.
A former dealership employee was accused of systematically scrapping nearly $250,000 worth of catalytic converters and selling them to a recycling center for pennies on the dollar.
Janet Christine Stair is charged with concocting a service-ticket scheme that defrauded a Hot Springs Chrysler dealership of more than $17,000 and charged its factory nearly $12,000 for phantom warranty work.
A former office manager at Lithia Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Montana pleaded guilty this week to stealing approximately $288,000 from the dealership over a nine-year period.
The former owner and operator of Costa Mesa Bellagio Motors, a car dealership that specialized in buying and selling high-end luxury vehicles, was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $2 million from unsuspecting customers.
The former office manager of a Pennsylvania dealership was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for stealing nearly $700,000 from the business.
The former office manager of DeLaBruere's Auto Sales in Vermont will be serving 15 months in prison and paying more than $368,000 in restitution for stealing cash from the dealership and writing fake checks to cover it up.
According to The Herald-Palladium , a former employee of a Michigan car dealer pleaded guilty to stealing $94,000 from the store.
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