A Fallbrook lady who owned a Porsche restoration and resale enterprise pleaded responsible Thursday to defrauding her clients and has agreed to pay greater than $8 million in restitution to 57 victims.
Andrea Nicole Doherty, 38, admitted to taking up $827,000 from clients through the years after she took over the enterprise, CPR Classic, from her father following his 2021 dying. The firm has since been mired in lawsuits from clients who declare they have been owed cash or autos, and the corporate’s automobile supplier license was suspended by the California Department of Motor Vehicles final yr.
Doherty pleaded responsible to 3 counts of wire fraud associated to 3 autos offered by way of CPR Classic.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office stated one Porsche was offered to 2 separate consumers and Doherty accepted funds from each with out informing or paying the vendor.
Another time, she agreed to promote a automobile and took $280,000 from a purchaser, however didn’t give that cash to the vendor, prosecutors stated. She later took $275,000 from one other purchaser and used a part of that cash to pay the vendor.
Another automobile was offered for $130,000 with out the vendor being paid or knowledgeable, the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated.
Doherty is because of be sentenced in February.
Anyone who believes they might be a sufferer within the case was suggested to submit a report back to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov, the California Department of Motor Vehicles at www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/customer- service/dmv-complaints-ffinv-1/, or a declare by way of the Consumer Motor Vehicle Recovery Corporation at www.CMVRC.org.
–City News Service