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\u00a0PENNSYLVANIA<\/strong> — A New York man admitted in U.S. District Court to buying high-mileage cars, sport-utility vehicles and trucks from sellers in four states, altering the odometers and reselling the vehicles at wholesale auto action in Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lower odometer readings would mean higher profits for the defendant, say officials.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors said the defendant, Edward Capicchioni, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to tamper with odometers and making false odometer certifications.<\/p>\n

Capicchioni, of\u00a0Massapequa, N.Y.,rolled back odometers on used cars and trucks to make the vehicles appear more valuable.\u00a0 Doing business under the company name of The General\u2019s Auto Sales, \u00a0officials said Capicchioni sold more than 50 vehicles with rolled back odometers.<\/p>\n

\u201cTampering with a car\u2019s odometer in order to trick a would-be buyer is not only pernicious, it is a federal crime,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division Stuart F. Delery.\u00a0 \u201cA car is an expensive purchase \u2013 indeed, for many of us, the most expensive purchase of our lives \u2013 and we have a right to know that the car we are buying is what it appears to be.\u00a0 The Department of Justice will continue to take action against those who seek to defraud consumers.<\/p>\n

Capicchioni purchased \u00a0vehicles and trucks from individual sellers in New York,\u00a0<\/span>Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Maryland. \u00a0Capicchioni then worked with a co-conspirator to roll back and alter the odometers.<\/p>\n

Authorities said Capicchioni also took steps to hide his odometer fraud scheme.\u00a0 He checked the Carfax public database to see if it included a mileage entry that was higher than the false, lower mileage to which he reset the odometer.<\/p>\n

When Carfax included a higher mileage, Capicchioni submitted to Carfax fraudulent documentation in the name of the vehicle\u2019s prior owner, in order to have the higher mileage reading removed, officials said.<\/p>\n

After Carfax discovered Capicchioni\u2019s fraud scheme through an internal investigation, Carfax personnel alerted the Office of Odometer Fraud Investigation at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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