Thread: TX - Ex-DPS worker took bribes to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants

Former DPS employee pleads guilty to
fraudulent drivers license sales

Linda Perez issued licenses to undocumented immigrants

Posted: 4:46 PM, November 03, 2015 Updated: 6:27 PM, November 03, 2015



SAN ANTONIO - Linda Perez, a former Department of Public Safety employee, admitted to selling $215,000 worth of Texas drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.

According to investigators from the Department of Homeland Security Perez, who worked at the department’s office on South General McMullen, said Tuesday she sold the licenses for $1,000 to $2,000 each from November 2014 to May 2015.

“Ms. Perez has taken responsibility for what she’s done,” said her attorney Luis Vera. “It is a serious matter and she knows that.”

According to information contained in the plea agreement, Perez accepted the money in paper bags, which also often contained food at the counter where she worked. Investigators conservatively estimated that she issued 144 licenses.

Perez is facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. She will be formally sentenced on Feb. 4, 2016.

http://www.ksat.com/news/former-dps-employee-pleads-guilty-to-fraudulent-drivers-license-sales

We have had numerous articles like this....there must be millions of such licenses around the country by now.

These two better contact their relatives in Mehico regarding an extra room.....

Originally Posted by Jean

We have had numerous articles like this....there must be millions of such licenses around the country by now.

You are right and the bad news is, they will use them to vote.

The state of Pennsylvania is listed as not issuing DL to illegals YET all illegals that drive have one, own a car with valid insurance a must.

No bribes needed, the state is set up to issue online simply by supplying a SS#, name & address - obviously nothing is verified.

Pay & they send you the card to go to Motor Vehicle Center for picture and you have a license. Read many stories where crooks have multiple licenses in different names.

So driving is a privilege and used to have a strict issuance criteria. That is all out the window to allow illegals to drive and possibly to vote as some states do auto register with DL. Though it is claimed someone checks all registrants, I doubt it.

Voters registration - You can register to vote at a PA Department of Transportation photo license center when you obtain or update your driver's license.
Online registration - you are asked if you are a citizen, asked for DL# or last 4 digits of SS#, name, address. birth date, party. Now is the county registrars office really going to fact check citizen? NO - especially if you obtained a DL or have a SS# even if fraudulent.

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All these articles but not one single mention about what is being done to confiscate the illegally issued licenses, apprehend the illegals, or prosecuting them for fraudulently obtaining an illegal license. Heck, we don't even prosecute illegals who pay smugglers to illegally bring their children here. What ICE (or DHS) does is actually participate in the crime by aiding the illegal child to reach their destination. The law is pretty much meaningless when it comes to illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by MW

All these articles but not one single mention about what is being done to confiscate the illegally issued licenses, apprehend the illegals, or prosecuting them for fraudulently obtaining an illegal license. Heck, we don't even prosecute illegals who pay smugglers to illegally bring their children here. What ICE (or DHS) does is actually participate in the crime by aiding the illegal child to reach their destination. The law is pretty much meaningless when it comes to illegal aliens.

I feel certain that they cancel all of the licenses and/or arrest the people who buy them as shown in this article.
The writer of other articles may just be lazy and not follow up on what happens or it just doesn't cross their mind to ask what happens.

"At least 33 arrests have been made of people with the real-but-fake licenses."

DPS worker accused of taking bribes for driver's licenses

By Mike Tolson
Published 9:09 pm, Wednesday, October 28, 2015

For college students throughout Texas, getting a fake driver's license has long been a rite of passage, and often the key ingredient for an impromptu Saturday night kegger.
But for the undocumented, obtaining a phony license is a much more vital matter. And if they can get one that looks realistic because it is real - supplied unwittingly by the state of Texas - they will pay handsomely.

Jose A. Ytuarte, a 53-year-old customer service representative at a driver's license office, allegedly exploited that willingness to supplement his modest salary.

Working with an associate who would steer people to his office in Hondo, Ytuarte would input false information saying the applicant had been born in the U.S. The two would split anywhere between $1,000 and $5,000 per license, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.

Ytuarte and Azeez Mistry, 44, of San Antonio were charged with six felony counts in connection with the fraudulently issued licenses from May 2013 to July. Both have been released on bail pending trial.

The indictment follows a similar operation in Dallas, where Gloria Adame used her position as a state driver's license technician to supply seemingly real licenses to immigrants in the country illegally.

Acting on her own, she was accused of approaching numerous potential customers and arranging for the issuance of at least 28 licenses, beginning in 2011.

Adame pleaded guilty in August and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.

The lure of what must seem like easy money also has been seen in other states with a significant immigrant population. In Kansas, for example, a Department of Revenue driver's license examiner, Samantha Moore, allegedly helped supply fraudulently obtained licenses beginning in 2011. Moore, 28, faces 51 various counts in an ongoing investigation.

At least 33 arrests have been made of people with the real-but-fake licenses.
Similar charges were levied earlier this summer against California Department of Motor Vehicles employees earlier, and in 2013 a Florida state employee was found to be selling driver's licenses to undocumented applicants who, as in the Texas case, had been steered to her by an associate.

An even bigger phony license scam in Las Vegas was broken up several years ago, but not before 187 illegal licenses had been issued.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...-s-6597147.php

Illegals are driving all @ Pennsylvania - no matter what the Pa DMV states online. The only ones that should have a dl are those here on visas/work permits.

Many of the food delivery trucks to their stores are from out of state and mostly mexican names. The driver has a dl? How do they get them - loop holes in many states' systems. Because the gov't wants them here doing business, taking jobs, taking over food supply chains etc.

Nothing to do with bribes here and many other places, the system is flawed ON PURPOSE. There are cases also of transferring an acquired dl from another state.