A Philadelphia used car salesman has been sentenced to prison after stealing millions of dollars from customers who were looking to buy wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
Edward Scott Rock, 50, of Philadelphia, was charged by indictment in December 2023 and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud in October of last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said.
According to court filings, between 2019 and 2023, Rock, a used car salesman in Northeast Philadelphia, advertised and accepted payment for wheelchair-accessible vehicles but never delivered them to dozens of unsuspecting customers…