Commonwealth v. Vergotz

DEL SOLE, Judge:

This is a direct appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County which sentenced Alex J. Vergotz, Jr., Appellant, to a $5,000.00 fine and one to two years imprisonment for his conviction of Deceptive Business Practices, and imposed a fine of $100.00 for each of the thirty-three counts of Violations of Use of Certificate of Inspection for which he was also convicted. We affirm in part and vacate in part.

The pertinent facts are as follows: In December 1989, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper James E. Ruff obtained information from several informants concerning…