Former Cleveland used car dealer sentenced

A former used car dealer was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised probation in connection with a wire fraud scheme. Mitch Simpson was also fined $105,000.

Simpson, a 56-year-old Cornelia resident, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the scheme which concerned floor-plan financing, a type of financing which serves as a revolving line of credit or short-term loan given to a business to purchase inventory. It is commonly used by car dealers.

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Simpson was operating Mitch Simpson Motors in Cleveland at the time of the wrongdoing.