Two Department of Motor Vehicles employees are facing multiple charges for selling CDLs to people who never passed, or in some cases never even took, the required exams.
The case against DMV employees, 38-year-old Kari Scattaglia and 51-year-old Lisa Terraciano, was filed in court on Wednesday, October 18th in Los Angeles, California, but their involvement began in September of 2014 and lasted until April of this year.
According to court documents, would be truck driving students would visit truck driving schools participating in the scam and agree to pay a fee in order to receive a CDL without passing, or even taking, the required tests. The trucking-school owners would then contact Scattaglia and Terraciano and pay them to enter passing scores for the faux truck driver.
“Scattaglia, Terraciano and the other DMV co-conspirators repeatedly, and without authorization, accessed the DMV computer database and altered DMV records to incorrectly and fraudulently indicate that the truckers had passed the written examinations for Class A, Class B, and/or Class C CDLs,” read the court documents.
“The documents also allege that Scattaglia accessed DMV computers ‘repeatedly’ to alter records to say that drivers had passed behind-the-wheel driving exams when they had either not taken them or passed them,” The Sacramento Bee reported.
“In total, the broker co-conspirators were paid no less than $18,600 for the issuance of fraudulent licenses through defendants Scattaglia, Terraciano and the other DMV co-conspirators,” the documents continued.
Scattaglia was a DMV manager working in Granada Hills and Arleta in Los Angeles, California. Terraciano was an employee at a DMV office in Winnetka in Los Angeles.
Both women face charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit identity fraud, and unauthorized use of a computer. They could receive a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
The date of their hearing has not yet been released.
