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In the novel and 1996 film Matilda, Matilda's dad was a second hand car dealer who would use an electric drill to reverse the cable-driven odometer. Odometer fraud was depicted in the opening scene of the 1980 film Used Cars and by Danny DeVito's character.
Odometer Fraud. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 450,000 cars are sold with manipulated odometer readings every year at a cumulative cost of $1 billion in ...
Here's a troubling statistic: there's about a 3.5 percent chance that a car will have its odometer messed with in the first 11 years of its life. Odometer Tampering on Used Cars Is Rolling Higher ...
Franklin County investigators are looking for drivers who might be the victims of odometer fraud. Sheriff’s office investigators are asking anyone who bought a vehicle from the Eltopia Auto ...
Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure.By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge.
The Federal Odometer Act, passed in 1972, modified the United States Code to prohibit tampering with a motor vehicle's odometer and to provide safeguards to protect purchasers in the sale of motor vehicles with altered or reset odometers. [1] The Act provides definitions and civil and criminal penalties for odometer fraud.
Adam Newbrey operated Ideal Motors, which is also known as I-Deal Motors, Midwest Wholesale and Prestige Motors, according to the release.
Odometer – the practice by the seller of a used vehicle of falsely representing the actual mileage of the vehicle to the buyer, by rolling back the odometer to make it appear that the vehicle has lower mileage than it actually does. [23] Overpayment; in parapsychology; Paper hanging, see § Check; Passport; Paternity