Thread: Manhattan man sentenced for bribery, identity fraud

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Jan 31, 2007
Manhattan man sentenced for bribery, identity fraud and transporting aliens

Michael Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Mustafa Ozsusamlar was sentenced to 235 months in prison for his role in conspiracies to bribe a public official, transport illegal aliens, and fraudulently obtain identification documents. Ozsusamlar was convicted following a two-week jury trial in July 2004 before United States District Chief Judge Kimba Wood on all charges contained in the Indictment.

As established by the evidence at trial Ozsusamlar and his co-conspirator, Rafet Ozoglu transported aliens by the vanload from the New York area to Washington, D.C., in order to fraudulently obtain Washington, D.C. driver’s licenses.

The scheme involved bribing co-conspirator Gwendolynn Dean -- a window clerk with the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles -- to process the driver’s license applications.

Throughout the two-and-a-half year course of the conspiracy, Ozsusamlar fraudulently obtained more than 900 D.C. driver’s licenses by bribing Deam. Many of those obtaining the driver’s licenses were illegal aliens, and approximately 75 of the individuals later exchanged their fraudulently obtained D.C. driver’s licenses for New York driver’s licenses.

More and more illegals are getting drivers licenses from cities that don't look at the status of an individual. The really bad part is that they also sign up to vote in American elections when they have no rights to do so. Most of the illegals don't have insurance which is why our car insurance keeps going up. Hopefully if the individuals who were convicted were immigrants they are going back to their native soil as soon as their jail terms are up.