The one in Huntsville, AL was a sleazy dealership, IIRC - always in trouble over unethical practices.
I’ve seen comments on other forums that these guys were as sharky as car salesmen get.
Sounds like it came back to bite them.
I call BS on the articles story for closing, if you google articles, they had some serious legal issues, the Columbus Ga store so harassed a lady buyer in the sales office she had a heart attack and died, talk about a hard sell. They twice issued forged recall notices in two different areas in the country and billed GM for the fake recalls, and the owner faces jail time and is trying to sell his house for 15 million in middle GA, to get out of debt for legal problems.