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October 2008 ISSUE
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Unscrupulous Gnarly Nasty Nissan
Click here to File a Complaint Against Douglas Nissan of Orange
September
27,
2008
Orange County by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, joined by
Doug Brenn, Deputy Chief for the Investigative
Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles, Sgt.
Dave Vullo and Detective Dave Pasino from the Orange
Police Department, Senior Deputy District Attorney
Doug Brannan and Senior Assistant District Attorney
Joe D'Agostino of the Orange County District
Attorney's Office held a press conference this past
Thursday to announce the arrest of four
defendants in what he characterized as “ the largest
fraud case against a car dealership in Orange County's
history. “
It was only after 27
identity theft police reports were filed with the
Orange Police Department regarding Douglas Nissan of
Orange and more than 100 complaints had been filed
with the Department of Motor Vehicles and Better
Business Bureau about Douglas dealerships for unfair
business practices between 2005 and 2007 that the
Orange County District Attorney's Office began and
investigating commencing in April 2007.
.
The four defendants arrested earlier this weel have
been charged with 43 counts of forgery, 31 counts of
grand theft, and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
Frank Urbano is a part-owner of Douglas Nissan of
Orange, which has since changed its name to Stadium
Nissan. Mr. Urbano was the general manager who
oversaw the day-to-day operations of the dealership.
Luz Coral, Kevin DeRosier, and Marwan Abdellatif were
former desk managers at Douglas Nissan who supervised
the dealership sales staff, secured documentation and
financing for vehicle sales, and signed off on all car
sale deals.
Between February 2005 and June 2007, the defendants
are accused of participating in an elaborate ongoing
conspiracy to sell used cars at prices above their
value, driving up the customers' monthly payments. The
higher the price, the higher their profit. This
conspiracy resulted in three types of victims:
the defrauded customers, persons whose identity
information was used without permission, and the banks
that were tricked into issuing bad loans.
According to the OCDA’s office, this the defendants
are accused of submitting false loan information to
cheat lenders and defraud vulnerable customers by
securing unaffordable loans in the customer's name.
They are accused of defrauding banks out of an
estimated $911,500 in financing through the submission
of these falsified records. Eight known banks and
lending institutions were defrauded in the scheme.
The defendants are accused of encouraging victims to
sign loan and purchase documents that had not been
completed, and they would later fill in the documents
with information that overstated the victims' ability
to pay. In many cases, the victims could not afford
the payment on the higher loans and lost their cars.
One victim, with a monthly income of $2,000, was
pressured into signing a contract without having the
opportunity to read or understand it, and later found
that Douglas Nissan has inflated the income on his
application to $4,300 a month. A victim in Texas
discovered that her social security number and
identity had been stolen and used to purchase a car at
Douglas Nissan.
Victims also included non-customers, whose identities
had been stolen and used to purchase cars. This
resulted in victims with loans they did not know about
and ownership of cars that they did not posses. Some
of these victims thought they were acting as a
reference for another customer, and instead they
became an unwitting co-signer. These victims were left
to carry the cost, without the car.
File a Complaint Against Douglas Nissan of Orange
People wishing to file a complaint against Douglas Nissan of
Orange
Download or print the "Douglas Nissan Complaint
Form" in English or Spanish at www.orangecountyda.com
SUBMIT: Forms can be e-mailed to ConsumerComplaint@da.ocgov.com
Faxed to (714)648-3636
Or mailed to: Attn: Consumer Protection Unit
Orange County District Attorney's Office
401 Civic Center Dr. W
Santa Ana, CA 92701
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