Posted on 08/12/2015 6:41:25 AM PDT by csvset
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As many as 100 commercial truck drivers paid up to $5,000 each to bribe state Department of Motor Vehicles employees for illegal California licenses, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Up to 23 traffic accidents could be related to the fraud, officials said, though there were no fatalities. Emma Klem, a 45-year-old Salinas DMV employee, and trucking school owner Kulwinder Dosanjh Singh, 58, of Turlock, both pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bribery and identity fraud, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said.
Two other DMV employees in Salinas and Sacramento and two other Central Valley trucking school operators have been arrested on similar charges.
Court records say the employees changed computer records to falsely show that drivers had passed written and behind-the-wheel tests after they were bribed by the owners of three truck-driving schools between June 2011 and March 2015.
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So—Who will be going to jail as the result of this?
California licenses are so tainted by corruption that they are not even accepted as valid ID here in Arizona.
We had something similar happen back in my day in VA.
California is looking more and more like mexcico every day.
typical of all 3rd world countries - public officials taking bribes on a regular basis as a course of doing normal business.
Ugh! On a trip out west we were almost run off the road by a hispanic looking fellow who had no numbers or a license on his semi. Cell phones were a relatively new thing back then and it was only when I made him aware of mine and that I was calling 911 was when he backed off.
Funny, there was a similar racket in my corner of Miss State.
Even had two for one offer at one point.
You know for those times when you just feel like being somebody else!
Ha! Exactly.
Sometimes I think, “ID theft? Go ahead. Steal mine. I’ll try being someone else for awhile.”
Yeah, like whenever there is a story about someone who has been declared dead by the government and their “struggle” to reestablish their identity.
Fools!
Talk about looking the gift horse in the mouth!
HA! EXACTLY!!
lol I like the way you think.
Right on, brother.
Good to meet you!
This is probably common. A few years ago a Lousiiana DMV employee was arrested for selling false IDs right outta the People need multiple identities, doncha know, to vote, take Americans’ jobs, while collecting multiple benefits, etc.
=right outta the DMV office.
Back atcha!!!
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