‘Huge’ Victory for Consumers In Fraudulent Automobile-Sales

BOSTON—Thanks in part to the work of a South Florida law firm, KPKB, hundreds of Massachusetts consumers won restitution from a local car dealer who had bilked them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the fraudulent sale of untitled automobiles and unregistered service warranties.

     Ignoring a Massachusetts court injunction barring the transfer of any assets, stipulated as a result of a consumer lawsuit, the dealer purchased a Ft. Lauderdale home in an attempt to protect assets under Florida’s liberal Homestead Exemption.

     Hired by the Massachusetts Attorney General, KPKB filed a law suit seeking declaratory relief that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was entitled to an equitable lien on the debtor’s homestead and sought foreclosure of same. As a result of KPKB’s effort, the dealer repaid the consumers he had defrauded.

     “This is a huge victory for those consumers,” said KPKB attorney Bradley S. Shraiberg.