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Fake tests, real licenses: Three plead guilty in Louisiana CDL fraud scheme
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Trucking Industry News Archives » Land Line Media
A bribery scheme that resulted in over 100 fraudulently issued commercial driver’s licenses has netted guilty pleas from three individuals.
Alhattab admitted to sending pictures of CDL applicants to the OMV employees, along with the desired license endorsements, to obtain a commercial learner’s permit.
Once CLPs were obtained, Alhattab admitted to bribing two individuals who owned truck driver training schools – one of which was Parsons – to produce false training records.
In his guilty plea, Parsons admitted to accepting payments from Alhattab in exchange for reporting that applicants had completed the necessary training to the federal database.
They later determined that “precaution was unnecessary” and began entering skills test scores without anyone physically at the testing site.