Sunday, February 3, 2013

Pow! Shady Used Car Dealer Sucker Punches a TV Reporter


Whoever said being a reporter on television isn't exciting or…painful, needs to think twice. Investigative reporter Jeff Chirico for local CBS station WGCL in Atlanta has the scars to prove it after he tried to interview the father of a convicted auto dealer who opened a new shop in Gainesville, even though he doesn't have a license.

The story begins in September when Richard Wilder, 43, owner of the now-defunct Braselton Used Auto Sales, was charged with seven counts of theft by deception and one count of racketeering for purportedly depositing customers' tax refund checks into his own account.

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