No ID? No problemo! Clients willing to pay $1,000 to $1,500 to obtain a fraudulent California driver's license

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A couple were sentenced Friday for their roles in a scheme in which state Department of Motor Vehicles workers in Oakland accepted bribes for providing bogus identification documents to illegal immigrants.

Jose Ramirez, 25, of San Leandro was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and his wife, Raylynn Brooks, 29, received five years of probation during a hearing before U.S. District Judge D. Lowell Jensen in Oakland.

The two worked with DMV staffers at the Claremont Avenue office in Oakland in 2005 but were not employees there. Each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit honest services mail fraud.

Ramirez recruited clients willing to pay $1,000 to $1,500 to obtain a fraudulent California driver's license, and Brooks obtained bogus receipts for clients from then-DMV worker Marla Robinson, authorities said.

The couple bribed Robinson to process the licenses, authorities said. Robinson pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and was sentenced to a year and a day in prison.

Brooks accepted responsibility for her role in the scam so she could focus on caring for her two young children, said her attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Jerome Matthews.

"She desires to put this unfortunate episode behind her and devote her energies to becoming and remaining a responsible parent," Matthews wrote in court papers.

Four other DMV workers in the Oakland office were convicted in the scheme. Frances Aliganga received a 38-month sentence, and Leneka Pendergrass was sentenced to 27 months. Brachelle Fifer was sentenced to six months of home detention, and Stephanie Davis received a sentence of seven months in prison and seven months of home detention.

The charges were the result of a 20-month investigation in which agents followed employees, dug through one suspect's trash and spied on the Claremont Avenue office.

There, undercover FBI agents acting as clients were steered by brokers to specific windows where a bribed DMV worker was waiting to process them, authorities said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/20/BAJ5ST501.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

Answer 1

Send them to Illinois.
Illinois will pave the way for them to get a drivers license and to vote in elections!
It won't cost them a dime.
In fact Illinois will pay for lawyers if they need them.
Give them jopbs. Give them health care.
Hide them from the Bush administration (as if Bush wanted to pursue them).
Dick Durban and Barack Obama BOTH want their votes.

Answer 2

I often wonder how many Americans have sold their souls to make a buck! It's disgusting and I think their penalties should have been much more severe! I never in my wildest dreams believed that our country would be over run with illegals and the politicians and big businesses that have profitted from this travesty! It's time for a public vote to let Americans have their say as to what to do with these traitors and whether or not we really want illegals in our country! It's time!

Answer 3

In some of the public parks in Los Angeles and San Francisco, you can buy three fake I.D.s for some $500. Some use one for work, two for welfare programs and when the Real I.D. finally gets here, we will find out how deep this problem is. I am betting it is billions deep too.

Answer 4

you and your bs like i told you before how many americans commit crimes and gets entenced to jail..your arguments are crappy