Video shows Brooklyn auto repair shop apparently operating with expired license
A license suspension, a fine from the state and a series of CBS News New York investigations apparently isn't enough to get a Brooklyn auto repair shop to follow the law.
Investigative reporter Tim McNicholas first looked into State to State Automotive back in February when customers told him the shop was holding their cars hostage.
Then, just this month, McNicholas found the shop working on cars again without a license to do so.
Brooklyn auto repair shop fined for failure to provide work orders
Back in February, customers Louis Denory and Sara-Lee Ramsawak told CBS News New York the garage on Atlantic Avenue held their vehicles for months and refused to return them.
The shop finally returned both their cars after CBS News New York started asking questions.
A month after that story aired, a Department of Motor Vehicles inspector visited the shop and said State to State failed to provide the right paperwork for Ramsawak's car and four others.
The state suspended the shop's operating license until a virtual hearing in May, where the DMV asked the administrative law judge for stronger punishment — a six-month license suspension.
The judge agreed State to State failed to provide work orders for four cars, despite arguments to the contrary from State to State Automotive manager Steven Ventura, but ruled against the longer suspension and instead ordered State to State pay a $1,000 fine.
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