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Two brothers had more success removing miles from the odometer than Ferris Bueller and Cameron Frye did in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
A New York judge last week ordered a used-car dealer to serve five years in prison and pay nearly $4 million in restitution for tampering with hundreds of vehicle odometers. His brother was sentenced to a year in prison.
From 2006 to 2011, Shmuel Gali altered the mileage of an estimated 690 used vehicles he had purchased, then sold them at wholesale auctions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to court documents. On average, odometers were rolled back by more than 69,000 miles.