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MIDDLETOWN – George Hajati, 41, of Cromwell, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 27 months in prison, followed by five years on probation, for operating a auto loan fraud scheme while on federal probation after a previous federal conviction, federal authorities said in a statement.
Hajati was also ordered to serve the first six months of his supervised release in house arrest and to perform 120 hours of community service, the statement added.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Hajati owned and operated a used car dealership at 1075 Newfield St., Middletown, known as Car Nation, LLC, Car Nation CT, LLC and Middletown Motorcars, according to the press release.
As part of auto loan applications for several borrowers, Hajati and the employees under his direction, submitted documents and statements to victim lenders that falsely represented the borrower’s job, salary, sources of income, as well as that the fact and the amount of a deposit, the release mentioned. The forged documents included fictitious or altered borrower’s pay stubs and income verification letters allegedly from the Social Security Administration.
Hajati falsely indicated that borrowers received wages they did not receive, worked at jobs they did not work, received income from the social security administration that they did not collect, and made down payments that they did not receive. ‘they had not paid, according to the statement. In some cases, the borrower was unaware and did not consent to Hajati using his personal identifying information to obtain auto loans in this manner, the statement said.
Between April 2016 and July 2019, Hajati defrauded lenders to victims of $ 654,952.56 through this program, the statement said. Hajati is required to pay full restitution.
He was arrested in a federal criminal complaint on July 2, 2019. On December 20, he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
Hajati has previously been convicted of federal conspiracy and fraud offenses related to a mortgage fraud scheme in the Hartford area that defrauded various lenders of over $ 1 million, the statement said.
In August 2015, Hajati was sentenced in Hartford Federal Court to 12 months and one day in jail, followed by three years on probation. He was released from federal prison in August 2016 and was on probation at the time of the auto loan fraud, the statement said.
Hajati’s supervised release hearing is scheduled for Monday, when he faces an additional maximum sentence of two years in prison.
Hajati, who is released on $ 560,000 bail, is due to report to jail on September 25.
The case has been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration and is being pursued by US Deputy Prosecutors David T. Huang and Conor M. Reardon.
