March 23, 2017

New Jersey announced that the manager of a now-defunct Bergen County used car dealership was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role as “point man” in a bank financing scam that netted $1.4 million in fraudulent loans for luxury cars. Hector Marquez, the general manager of D.I.B Leasing in Teterboro, was also ordered to pay $110,370 in restitution under the sentence handed down yesterday by Superior Court Judge Susan Steele in Bergen County. Marquez, 44, of Monroe, pleaded guilty in July to first-degree money laundering and second-degree misconduct by a corporate official in the dealership case. He also pleaded guilty to second-degree insurance fraud in a separate indictment involving a $139,000 Bentley purchased at his dealership and later torched and reported stolen to an insurance company. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for that case and will serve both sentences concurrently. Last week, the dealership’s finance manager, Paul Russo, 52, of Scotch Plains, was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $150,267 in restitution by Superior Court Judge Steele. In July 2015, Russo pleaded guilty to second-degree money laundering and second-degree misconduct by a corporate official in the dealership case. NJ

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