Chief Warrant Officer Shane Sprague is suing Doral (Fla.) Volkswagen more than two months after being arrested for stealing a truck he had purchased from the dealership. +
Landmark Dodge of Independence, Mo., will pay a total of $275,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging a policy set by ownership required some jobs to be staffed by men or women. +
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the California Combating Auto Retail Scams Act, which was modeled in part after an FTC initiative that stalled in a federal appeals court in January. +
Representatives of major trade associations tell Automotive News a study that found evidence of discriminatory auto lending practices relies on flawed methodology and incomplete data. +
JPMorgan Chase, Fifth Third and Barclays are among the credit line providers facing massive losses as retailer and subprime lender Tricolor Auto enters bankruptcy proceedings. +
Valerie Drewlow, the former office manager at Greeley (Colo.) Nissan and Greeley Volkswagen, was arrested and faces charges of stealing $182,815 from the dealerships. +
The owner of New York’s Bul Auto Sales and Jacksonville’s Karma franchise has been arrested in Florida, where he faces charges of fraud and dealing in stolen property. +
The California New Car Dealers Association is suing to prevent further collections of deposits for the upcoming Afeela 1 EV, which the factory plans to sell directly to consumers. +
A unanimous state supreme court decision finds NJ CAR lacks standing to sue Ford Motor Co. for alleged violations of New Jersey franchise laws relating to the Lincoln Commitment program. +
Mark Janbakhsh faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison after being convicted in a bank fraud conspiracy involving his brother, inflated inventory and unearned lines of credit. +
