This is scary.
New York has indicted seven people, three of them DMV employees, for their alleged involvement in a commercial driver's license (CDL) cheating scheme to give unqualified drivers the credentials to drive on U.S. roads.
ABC 7 in New York reports on the story:
The Nassau County District Attorney's Office has charged a group of seven people, including DMV employees, on Thursday in an alleged driver's license cheating scheme on Long Island ...
'Bypassing that safeguard is far from a harmless shortcut, it is a dangerous threat to public safety,' said New York Inspector General Lucy Lang during a Thursday morning press conference.
Seven people have been indicted on 51 felonies for the cheating scheme.
Video evidence shows people in disguises going in to take the written portion of the exams for people who were unable to pass on their own. Some of those indicted actually work for the DMV.
Among those charged include Kanaisha Middleton, a supervisor at the Garden City branch of the DMV, as well as her sister, Jamie Middleton, who is accused of taking at least 10 different permit tests for no-show drivers.
Surveillance images show Jamie Middleton wearing different disguises, even fake facial hair as she posed as a man who would be applying for a commercial driving permit, but she forgot to take off her fake nails.
You're going to laugh, and possibly cry, at these disguises.
Of course, the disguises could be lazy, since they had a worker on the inside waving the cheaters through.
Prosecutors say the defendants charged as much as $3,000 per permit test, two of them working the counters at the DMV so they could wave the phony test taker through.
$3,000 to push through drivers who pose a deadly risk to millions of drivers on U.S. highways??
The defendants are facing multiple felony counts, including impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination, corrupting the government, tampering with public records and falsifying business records.
If convicted, all defendants are facing a maximum sentence of between 2.5-7 years in prison. They have all been arraigned and are due back in court in November.
We saw a similar cheating scheme take place in Florida where people who couldn't speak or read English used a hidden camera to cheat the CDL test:
Makes you wonder how all the illegal aliens are getting CDLs in New York.
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