Former California DMV employee sentenced to 22 months for CDL scam

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Published by iTrucker at 17 Sep

Former California DMV employee sentenced to 22 months for CDL scam

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A former California Department of Motor Vehicles’ (DMV)  employee was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison for his part in a fraudulent commercial driver’s license scheme. According to the article from the freightwaves.com and its author Clarissa Hawes

Aaron Gilliam pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, identity fraud and unauthorized access of a computer in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. Hawes also wrote in her article.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Gilliam, who processed applications for CDLs, accessed the DMV’s database and “altered CDL applicants’ records to show that they had passed the written examination” when, in fact, they had not passed. Some applicants had not even taken the test. According to Hawes.

Read the full story HERE

Source and credits: freightwaves.com /  Clarissa Hawes /  iTrucker  / Mario Pawlowski  

 

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