The lawsuit comes after Jaguar Land Rover ordered a full audit of Millennium's warranty and sales-incentive records and demanded the dealership to pay more than $600,000. Millenium started an internal investigations, paid Jaguar Land Rover nearly $100,000 for paperwork errors and continued with the investigations,.
According to Millenium’s attorneys, despite repeated requests, Jaguar Land Rover senior management has refused to reveal all the facts on which the audit was based and refused to provide all information that it discovered in the course of its audit.
"Millennium owner David Stephens has made a career out of doing the right thing, and as a result has been recognized for his ethics and business practices alike. He has proven this again by taking the remedial action of voluntarily refunding the money believed to be rightfully owed to the manufacturer," says Millennium's attorney Brian Melton, a partner in Shackelford Melton & McKinley, in a statement for the press.
"Based on what Jaguar Land Rover has provided to us, most of their findings are related to superficial paperwork problems. We are extremely confident that a complete examination of the facts will vindicate David Stephens and the Millennium dealership,” added Melton.
Millennium was the first African American-owned Jaguar dealership in the United States, and ranked in the top four for new car sales of all US Jaguar dealerships in July 2009. The dealership also ranked number one in customer satisfaction in 2006.
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