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The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
The number of vans bought represented more converted vans than the entire US industry produced, requiring Kay Industries to have a factory capable of producing 200–400 vans per day [3] The sales to Cydonia Trading violated GM's franchise agreements, because domestic dealers are not supposed to sell cars to overseas buyers
An auto chain isn’t going to be the absolute worst place to get a more in-depth repair, but Agnew said to be careful. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael (born 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster.During the 1970s energy crisis, Carmichael promoted a prototype for a low-cost fuel-efficient car via Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, which car was never produced, and fled with investor money. [1]
Mark and Jay Duplass are returning to HBO -- this time with a brand-new docuseries, The Lady and the Dale, recounting a 1970s auto scam by transgender woman and entrepreneur Liz Carmichael. As she ...
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In 1947, partnering with Matt Slap, he opened a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Northeast Philadelphia. [1] The store floundered and after discovering that the large Jewish population in the area avoided purchasing Ford cars due to the anti-Semitism associated with Henry Ford, he persuaded Israel's first president, Chaim Weizman, to accept a Lincoln as a gift in 1948 during a public event in New ...
Yost's office received 114 complaints about the business, of which 90 focused on vehicle titles. The office reimbursed 26 complaints totaling $71,687 from the Title Defect Recision Fund .