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  • Hertz to pay $168 million for falsely reporting stolen vehicles causing customers to be imprisoned

    12/06/2022 10:46:29 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 40 replies
    BoingBoing ^ | 6 December 2022 | Mark Frauenfelder
    The CEO of Hertz is sorry, so sorry for misplacing returned rental vehicles and then reporting them as stolen, causing honest customers to be locked in jail in some cases for six months or more. Not sorry enough to voluntarily compensate victims, of course. Hertz waited for a lawsuit, contesting the claims until it was forced to cough up $168 million. "In all cases, Hertz's goal is to protect its profits and cut its costs, even if it knows their own customers will lose their liberty and freedom as a result," said the lawsuit against Hertz."In February, after a U.S....