Fort Myers used car salesman busted for bank fraud

Author: wink news
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FORT MYERS, Fla.- A million dollar bank fraud scheme busted. A used car salesman faces federal charges for check kiting.

Federal investigators say Roger Hagood wrote bad checks to a lender to float cash to his business Coral Palm Auto Sales.

A WINK News viewer called us back in March after spotting stacks of files from the business inside a dumpster.

People’s names, addresses, driver’s licenses and credit card information were in those dumped documents.

Hagood is accused of destroying evidence the day before deputies hauled off the files.

According to the indictment, the bad checks were written in December of 2011.

A former employee tells WINK News, Coral Palm Auto Sales went out of business more than two years ago.

The indictment says Hagood wrote 13 checks totaling more than $1.5 million.

If he’s found guilty, he’ll have to pay it all back. Each of those bad checks carries a sentence of up to 30 years.

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