Hertz car rental company is paying $168 million in settlement money after customers were falsely accused of stealing cars.

The company blamed a “glitch” in the theft reporting system as to why it happened.

Car and Driver.com:

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened to hundreds of Hertz customers since 2015. According to lawsuits filed across the nation, customers were held at gunpoint, arrested, and even held in jail for days as a result of Hertz reporting rental models as stolen. Now, Hertz says it will compensate these customers to the tune of $168 million total, resolving claims for more than 95% of the wrongfully accused.

The company claims this issue was a result of a faulty theft reporting system, a system the company alleges was fixed following its 2020 bankruptcy. However, a lawsuit filed in Delaware earlier this year shows that the practice was still in effect following the company’s Chapter 11 proceedings. Hertz previously denied all claims of the false theft reports until this April, when the newly minted CEO, Stephen Scherr, admitted that some customers had been affected by the “glitch”.

The company says that it runs over 25 million rental transactions per year and that at least 3365 theft reports are made annually, accounting for 0.014 percent of its rentals. Additionally, a spokesperson for the company said that most of these cases involve renters who were many weeks or even months overdue, in a statement to CBS News.

364 people have been wrongfully arrested since 2020.

Some cases saw customers kept in jail for days – another case had a mother arrested which left her kid home alone.

The Drive reported:

Since 2020, 364 people were wrongfully arrested after police were told their rented Hertz vehicles were stolen when, in fact, they weren’t. According to the initial lawsuit earlier in the year, the cars were falsely reported as stolen due to Hertz incorrectly reporting thefts, failing to report rental extensions, failing to track vehicle inventory, incorrectly reporting customers’ payments, and also not correcting falsely stolen reports.

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In some cases, customers weren’t just stopped by police where they could explain themselves and then sent on their way. Some customers were actually arrested and kept in jail for up to 14 days, which was devastating. One woman, Mary Lindsey Flannery, was reportedly pulled over and arrested, which left her kid at home alone, as her husband was overseas in the military.

Terrible.

H/T Instapundit

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Christina Bobb, President Trump’s attorney, has released a new book available for sale now at Amazon.  Her book is titled – Stealing Your Vote.

Bobb discussed this and the current Maricopa situation with Joe Hoft on the Joe Hoft Show at TNTRadio.com.

Christina Bobb knows more about the 2020 Election than anyone in her profession.  During her time with OAN she traveled the country and met with numerous individuals and learned what happened in the 2020 Election.

The attorney, now working for President Trump, knows the players in Maricopa County elections very well after spending months there in 2021 during the Maricopa Audit in the county.

Christina was on Joe Hoft’s new radio show at TNTRadio.live this week.  She discussed her new book available for sale now at Amazon titled “Stealing Your Vote“.

Bobb also discussed the activities going on in Maricopa starting at the 16:00 mark in the clip below.  She shared in part the following:

The left we are witnessing reminds her of the saying “An evil person will burn their country to the ground just to rule over the ashes.”

“We’re witnessing evil trying to burn this country to the ground.”

“The world bought it, oh we need to be tolerant and now we’re tollerating evil.”

Bobb has hope because she knows Americans aren’t buying what the left is selling.

“The few radical fringe have managed to take over our country.”

Next Bobb talked about the Maricopa lawsuit filed by Kari Lake.  She points out that based on recent information coming out through various channels indicates that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer was working to prevent Trump-backed candidates from winning the 2022 election.

Listen to the entire discussion below.

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