a trail of lies

01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, October 18, 2007

By Amanda Milkovits and Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writers

A string of lies to city, state and federal authorities placed Dolores Rodriguez LaFlamme in a sensitive job at the state Division of Motor Vehicles, through which she allegedly helped drug dealers and illegal immigrants get the valid licenses they needed to hide their identities.

She lied first to the city, when she obtained a license to marry a convicted heroin dealer solely to stay in the country.

She lied to the state by checking off “U.S. citizenâ€