SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Space man who operated a Marin County luxurious automobile dealership has been charged in federal court docket with two felonies for allegedly dishonest consignment sellers and evading payroll taxes, court docket data present.
Walter Dawydiak was charged in December with mail fraud, which carries a 20-year most jail sentence, and tax evasion, which is punishable by as much as 5 years in jail. An early court docket look has been set for Jan. 27. The mail fraud cost alleges Dawydiak bilked consignment sellers from January 2014 to September 2019, court docket data present.
Dawydiak’s legal professional, Ed Swanson, stated in an e-mail to this newspaper that he expects Dawydiak to plead responsible, and that he “promptly and fully accepted duty for his actions.”
“(Dawydiak) additionally carried out new processes on the firm in September 2019 to make sure purchasers all the time obtain an in depth breakdown on bills and what they’re owed on a sale,” Swanson stated. “He’s extraordinarily remorseful, and has been working intently with the prosecutors and brokers to repay purchasers who misplaced cash due to his conduct in addition to to make full cost to IRS for underreporting time beyond regulation payroll tax.”
Dawydiak owns Dawydiak Vehicles, a Corte Madera luxurious automobile dealership that “operated primarily as a high-end luxurious car dealership in San Francisco,” in line with the charging paperwork. The dealership largely relied on consignment gross sales for automobile homeowners trying to promote, and that the costs could be pre-negotiated. As a part of the alleged scheme, prosecutors say Dawydiak would deceive the sellers about how a lot the automobiles offered for and pocket the distinction.
It is usually alleged that Dawydiak tried to illegally scale back his payroll taxes by “willfully concealing the time beyond regulation cost of wages, together with by making the funds in money, holding a separate set of data for these wages,” and falsifying tax data, the charging doc says.
The enterprise’ web site boasts that purchasers who promote their automobiles by way of Dawydiak Vehicles “will get way more” in comparison with promoting on their very own.
“We focus on pricing and also you set the beginning worth and have full management over the value you settle for,” the web site says.