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damn crooks, 53 years in jail sounds about right to me.
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The owner of a Grand Junction auto dealership has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for selling vehicles determined to be "total losses" to unsuspecting purchasers.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that 68-year-old Camden P. Fortney III will also have to pay restitution of $584,000 to the victims.
According to a grand jury indictment issued in May 2009, the scheme ran from 2005 through 2008 and involved 52 vehicles.
According to the indictment, Fortney regularly bought wrecked vehicles, repaired them and then sold them, understating the nature and extent of previous damage.
At times, he told the buyers that the vehicles still had a full factory warranty. But investigators charged that warranties deemed total losses by the Colorado Casualty Insurance Company are normally voided.
The vehicles Fortney sold should have had salvage-branded titles but instead were sold with "clean" titles, according to the Colorado Attorney General.
Fortney was indicted for theft, commercial bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery related to bribes he allegedly paid to two insurance adjusters.
One of the adjusters, Terry R. Robinson, 49, was an independent adjuster in Grand Junction who did work for Colorado Casualty Insurance Co.
The second was Mary Cross, 49, who also worked for Colorado Casualty Insurance.
A Mesa County jury convicted Fortney in April of 21 felony counts.
Robinson had earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree forgery, a second-degree misdemeanor and was sentenced to one year probation. He was also ordered to pay $3,200 in restitution.
Cross pleaded guilty to commercial bribery, a class 6 felony, and was sentenced to a four-year deferred prison sentence. She was ordered to pay $12,300 in restitution.
According to the grand jury, Robinson and cross would refer "total loss" or "salvage vehicles" to Fortney.
In return for money and gifts from Fortney, the two would send him "clean titles" rather than "salvage titles," which enabled Fortney to get more money for the vehicles on resale.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15351196?source=rss
The owner of a Grand Junction auto dealership has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for selling vehicles determined to be "total losses" to unsuspecting purchasers.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that 68-year-old Camden P. Fortney III will also have to pay restitution of $584,000 to the victims.
According to a grand jury indictment issued in May 2009, the scheme ran from 2005 through 2008 and involved 52 vehicles.
According to the indictment, Fortney regularly bought wrecked vehicles, repaired them and then sold them, understating the nature and extent of previous damage.
At times, he told the buyers that the vehicles still had a full factory warranty. But investigators charged that warranties deemed total losses by the Colorado Casualty Insurance Company are normally voided.
The vehicles Fortney sold should have had salvage-branded titles but instead were sold with "clean" titles, according to the Colorado Attorney General.
Fortney was indicted for theft, commercial bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery related to bribes he allegedly paid to two insurance adjusters.
One of the adjusters, Terry R. Robinson, 49, was an independent adjuster in Grand Junction who did work for Colorado Casualty Insurance Co.
The second was Mary Cross, 49, who also worked for Colorado Casualty Insurance.
A Mesa County jury convicted Fortney in April of 21 felony counts.
Robinson had earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree forgery, a second-degree misdemeanor and was sentenced to one year probation. He was also ordered to pay $3,200 in restitution.
Cross pleaded guilty to commercial bribery, a class 6 felony, and was sentenced to a four-year deferred prison sentence. She was ordered to pay $12,300 in restitution.
According to the grand jury, Robinson and cross would refer "total loss" or "salvage vehicles" to Fortney.
In return for money and gifts from Fortney, the two would send him "clean titles" rather than "salvage titles," which enabled Fortney to get more money for the vehicles on resale.
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