Roselle car dealer gets 9 years for defrauding owners

The president of a now-defunct Roselle automobile dealership was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded more than 100 car owners.

Glenn Stancil, 39, of Crystal Lake received the sentence late Wednesday in federal court. A jury convicted Stancil in January of scamming car owners out of more than $2.4 million as president of Clover Financial Sales & Leasing. He was ordered to begin serving his sentence Nov. 8.

Stancil was considered the leader of the fraud scheme that also benefited the dealership’s owner, Patrick McManamon, 50, of Elk Grove Village, prosecutors said. McManamon pleaded guilty in November 2010 for his part in the scheme and was sentenced to a little more than seven years in prison. Both men were facing up to 20 years behind bars.

In addition, the company’s former finance clerk was sentenced to a year of probation after cutting a deal with the government to testify against the two men. Pamela Mendyk, 36, of Lake in the Hills will have the charges against her dismissed if she successfully completes the terms of her probation, prosecutors said.

According to court records, the scheme perpetrated by Stancil and McManamon worked by having customers transfer titles over to the company without paying off the loans remaining on the vehicles as promised. That would often leave car owners in debt to their original loaning institution as well as a new one when they bought a new car.

The men from Clover would then sell or lease those cars to new people who would never get the titles because the loans weren’t paid off.

Federal prosecutors were assisted by the Illinois secretary of state’s police and the Illinois attorney general’s office.