Everybody loves to have a reason to hate the BMV. (DMV, MVA, whatever it’s called in your state — in other words, the motor vehicle licensing agency.)
Here’s reason number gazillion and six:
Four people who worked for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles were charged Saturday with taking bribes to help hundreds of foreign nationals get Indiana driver’s licenses and state identification.
The charges are the first against past or current BMV workers in an investigation of fraud at license branches in Central Indiana.
The workers at the branch at 4050 Meadows Parkway in Indianapolis forged documents and provided answers on driving tests for five to 10 undocumented immigrants daily from early this year to November, an affidavit filed in the case says.
Workers ran their scheme — which they called “Crystal’s payroll” for one of the accused conspirators — under their bosses’ noses by using secret signals and electronic messages to communicate with one another and their clients, prosecutors say.
Court documents say that for each transaction, they collected $300 from people seeking to stay in the United States illegally.
“Our security was put at risk for a few ill-gotten dollars,” Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi told The Indianapolis Star. “There is a risk that the next Mohamed Atta has a valid Indiana driver’s license.”
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One thing I didn’t notice in the article was any consideration of making the list of illegal documents and the names and numbers on them public, ie, by publishing them in the newspaper, so that anyone could check a presented piece of ID against that list. I think privacy concerns are pretty much out the window when the ID in question was illegally obtained, so why not?
And these four people ought to be hung up by their thumbs in the public square while people throw rotten vegetables at them. The bitch who started the whole thing needs to be deported back to China at minimum.