Ex-Auburn Car Dealer Faces Contempt Proceedings
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has accused the former owners of Riverside Mitsubishi in Auburn of selling cars in violation of a court order, Coakley's office announced.
Under a consent judgment obtained by Coakley's office in 2005, Darryl and Brenda Rivernider, of Oxford, had been ordered to stop selling cars in the state. In a contempt proceeding filed in Worcester Superior Court, Coakley alleges that the couple sold vehicles on at least five occasions in August and September.
The proceeding also alleges that the Riverniders failed to pay $100,000 due under previous judgment. Coakley has now asked the court to make the couple pay $200,000 in previously suspended civil penalties for failing to comply with the order as well as additional fines of $10,000 per vehicle sold.
The 2005 judgment found that the couple lured customers into buying cars with false promises of paying off loan balances and refinancing deals.
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