A Car Dealer's Crash ; Nicholas Reinhart Is Charged with Taking Money for Two Top-End Cars and Not Delivering. His $2.4 Million House Is Foreclosed On, Then Burns Down. A Bank Sues Him for Millions, and Police Say He Faces More Criminal Charges. Open for Business Going in Debt the Ifex Case Making Deals Msos Forged? Briefly Jailed

Sunday News; Lancaster, Pa. › June 14, 2010

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It was a business deal with a convicted sex predator that landed Nicholas Reinhart in deep trouble.

Or, at least, in deeper trouble.

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A Car Dealer's Crash ; Nicholas Reinhart Is Charged with Taking Money for Two Top-End Cars and Not Delivering. His $2.4 Million House Is Foreclosed On, Then Burns Down. A Bank Sues Him for Millions, and Police Say He Faces More Criminal Charges. Open for Business Going in Debt the Ifex Case Making Deals Msos Forged? Briefly Jailed

It was 2009.

The convict, a wealthy Philadelphia-area businessman named Andrew Mogilyansky, was facing prison on charges of sexually assaulting three teenage orphan girls in Russia.

Reinhart, a 58-year-old luxury auto dealer from Ephrata, agreed to sell dozens of cars on consignment for Mogilyansky's company, Ifex Global Inc.

But according to Philadelphia court papers, the parties disagree on how the deal went down.

Mogilyansky's attorneys claim Reinhart and three of the 10 or so companies he controls transferred the vehicles' titles and sold some of the cars without Ifex's consent.

Reinhart's attorneys vigorously dispute the claims.

The Ifex case set off a continuing legal tug-of-war over the vehicles and sparked at least one additional lawsuit.

Reinhart, meanwhile, is in tough legal straits here, too.

Ephrata police arrested him last month and charged him with taking $151,050 but failing to deliver a couple of Mercedes-Benzes to Oleg Zhui...

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