MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SCAM COULD LAND EX-BIG BLUE OWNER WELL OVER TWENTY YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
DECEMBER 16, 2021 – written by WADE QUEEN
A Wayne County, West Virginia man, who was the owner of a since defunct Kentucky used car dealership, has been convicted by a federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia in a truck warranty fraud scheme in which prosecutors said he bilked automaker Toyota Motor Corp. out of more than $4.3 million.
After a three-day trial, a federal jury on Thursday, December 9 convicted James Pinson, 46, of Pritchard, West Virginia, of three counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and two counts of conspiring to commit money laundering.
James Pinson was the owner of Big Blue Motor Sales, a Louisa Kentucky used car dealership.
The evidence that was revealed at trial revealed that James Pinson defrauded Toyota of over $4.3 million in connection with a Toyota Customer Support Program.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston, W.VA., in order to carry out his scheme, James Pinson bought Toyota trucks at wholesale prices at auction, obtained hundreds of copies of Kentucky and West Virginia residents’ driver’s licenses, fraudulently titled the trucks in the name of those residents, and fraudulently induced Toyota to repurchase the trucks at 150% of their retail value.
Toyota issued 350 checks in the names of individual false owners between 2013 and 2015. James Pinson forged signatures on all 350 checks and deposited them into his bank account. Pinson then used the money from this fraud scheme to buy more Toyota trucks at wholesale to run through the scheme. He also paid cash bribes to a service manager at a Toyota dealership and a representative of the company that Toyota hired to administer the Customer Support Program.
James Pinson further used the criminally-derived money from the fraud scheme to purchase a beach house in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office
“The excellent work of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the FBI, the West Virginia State Police, the West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner and the National Insurance Crime Bureau resulted in this defendant being brought to justice,” said United States Attorney Will Thompson. “I congratulate Assistant United States Attorneys Steven I. Loew and Andrew J. Tessman and the entire trial team for obtaining this guilty verdict.”
James Pinson faces up to 22 years in prison plus a mandatory two-year sentence resulting from his aggravated identity theft conviction when he is sentenced on March 3, 2022. Pinson also will be required to pay restitution of up to $4.3 million to Toyota, and all property connected to the scheme is subject to forfeiture.
United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin presided over the trial.
crooked as a dog’s hind leg as my daddy says
Bet he is a Republican man of faith
Yep guarantee he’s a trumper, but he’s a good Christian lmao 😂 😂
Just like Hunter,Joe,Hillary,Bill fine honest Dems. Hunters drug addiction sure helped him get the big oil job. The liberal media buried the Joe -Hunter crooked dealings when Daddy was Vice Pres.
BTW the last crooked car dealer out that way was let go scott free. He scammed hundreds of local people then just moved away.
Brandy your boy Trump had all the evidence on Hunter but did nothing why ?
Could it be there was nothing ?
Hillary testified under oath for over 8 hours like to see your boy Trump do that wouldn’t you ?
Now as for Bill let’s just say he likes women but don’t believed ever hear him say he likes grabbing them like your boy Trump bragged about.
The main stream media aka fake news burried the Hunter story. Hillary lied for 8 hours if thats how long she spoke. Destroyed hundreds of emails that would incriminate her. Bill didnt grab he took advantage of poor little Monica under the desk as he spoke to another world leader. Slick Willie. Trump bragged Clinton lied under oath and was impeached. Clintons are scum and so is Monica. Let Go Brandi …… Brandon !!!!!
Brandy you need to see your shrink or renew your meds
Could you people please get a life and quit tying every single news story to politics? Geez….. both sides need to give it up!
KAG suffers from TDS. She can’t help herself. He lives in her head.
Sally after what your boy did on January 6th every true American should disown what he tried to do.
No sally I suffer from stupidity I was born with less than half a brain
From the real KAG I agree you don’t even have a half of a brain
Your boy Biden and his hand picked woman of color supported the BLM movement in the summer of 2021. They burnt and destroyed federal buildings and overtook police headquarters in Portland and Seattle. They looted and still are looting today at the high end stores of the very liberal cities that support them. Biden’s Burn Loot and Murder (BLM) did 9 Billion worth of damage. Our vice president to be started a fund to bail out the thugs that did the damage. Again people who watch NBC,CBS,ABC,CNN, and MSNBC probably has never head these facts.
Google Biden agrees with Lets Go Brandon caller. Old Joe doesnt have a clue. LETS GO BRANDON !!!!
Brandy they did not try to overthrow the government because your guy lost the election. He lied to you Brandy he got his A$$ handed to him by President Biden. It’s been over a year now and no evidence of fraud just your guy and his lies and you swallowed those.
You’re full of S*+%
I don’t know if president Biden knows where his own ass is