{"id":42770,"date":"2021-05-19T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=42770"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T05:56:58","slug":"grand-jury-indicts-dmv-employees-who-took-bribes-to-issue-drivers-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=42770","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Indicts DMV Employees Who Took Bribes to Issue Driver&#8217;s Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted alleged \u201cbrokers\u201d accused of scheming to illegally obtain driver\u2019s licenses for ineligible applicants by paying bribes to corrupt employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles or DMV, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/philadelphia-woman-convicted-firebombing-killed-people\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Carlos Alberto Zea Londono,<b>\u00a0<\/b>58, of Granada Hills, and Eudelia Lopez Martinez, 50, of South Los Angeles, were charged in a superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, a felony offense that carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Also charged in today\u2019s indictment are Rogelio Zazueta, 52, of Huntington Park, and Arestakes Khachikyan, a.k.a. \u201cAries,\u201d 54, of Granada Hills, who each face one count of aiding and abetting the illegal production of identification documents, which carries a 15-year statutory maximum prison sentence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/former-receptionist-stole-446000-medical-office-new-jersey\/department-of-justice-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6759\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The superseding indictment adds two new charges and three additional defendants to a June 2020 indictment that charged only Zazueta with the aiding and abetting count.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Wednesday&#8217;s indictment alleges that, from April to October 2016, Londono and Lopez negotiated the price that ineligible driver\u2019s license applicants would pay in cash to fraudulently receive passing scores on the written test and\/or driving test needed to obtain a California driver\u2019s license. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The cash payments ranged from $400 to $1,400, according to the indictment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/registry-records-highest-number-exonerations\/criminal-justice-degree-3-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-637\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal-justice-degree-3-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal-justice-degree-3-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal-justice-degree-3-278x202.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal-justice-degree-3-373x270.jpg 373w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal-justice-degree-3.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The brokers then contacted the scheme\u2019s ringleader \u2013 Atanacio Villegas, a.k.a. \u201cA.T.,\u201d 46, of Portales, New Mexico, but who previously lived in Long Beach and who worked as a license registration examiner at the DMV office in Torrance. Londono.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Lopez allegedly paid Villegas cash bribes for the issuance of a validly issued California driver\u2019s licenses without applicants taking the necessary tests to legitimately obtain it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The brokers allegedly also provided Villegas the personal identifying information for the driver\u2019s license applicants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/dmv-employee-admits-accepting-bribes-attorneys-exchange-helping-clients\/dmv-san-francisco-hearing-defense\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9411\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dmv-san-francisco-hearing-defense-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dmv-san-francisco-hearing-defense-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dmv-san-francisco-hearing-defense-278x202.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dmv-san-francisco-hearing-defense.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Villegas then solicited the services of different California DMV employees who also took cash bribes to make fraudulent entries in the DMV\u2019s computer database to indicate that an applicant had passed the necessary written or driving tests \u2013 even though the applicant never actually took or passed the required tests to obtain a California driver\u2019s license. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Based on the fraudulent entries, the corrupt DMV employees then unlawfully issued instructional permits or driver\u2019s licenses to the applicants, the indictment alleges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/dominican-who-bit-off-finger-tip-of-ice-agent-sentenced-to-more-than-three-years-in-prison\/photo-by-tingey-injury-law-firm-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42513 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/l4ygusg0fxs-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"woman in gold dress holding sword figurine\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/l4ygusg0fxs-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/l4ygusg0fxs-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/l4ygusg0fxs-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/l4ygusg0fxs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>As a result, the California DMV prepared and mailed a California driver\u2019s license to applicants that they were not lawfully entitled to receive. Law enforcement believes that more than 100 driver\u2019s licenses were illegally issued because of the scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Zazueta allegedly aided and abetted the unlawful production of a California identification document in July 2016 on behalf of an individual. According to an affidavit filed with a criminal complaint in this case, Zazueta told the individual that he had connections at the Torrance DMV and could get a license for the individual for $1,200. The individual was issued a driver\u2019s permit even though the individual had not taken a written test, the affidavit states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The indictment further alleges that Khachikyan aided and abetted the unlawful production of California identification document in July 2016 on behalf of an individual for whom a corrupt DMV employee entered passing scores on a test required for an instructional permit, then issued the permit without the individual taking or passing the required tests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Defendants are innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Villegas is scheduled to plead guilty on June 21 to a seven-count information charging him with honest services mail fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> In his plea agreement, Villegas admitted that he and other DMV employees accepted cash bribes at least several times per week, and otherwise ineligible drivers would be directed to the window of a corrupt DMV employee with an \u201cidentifier\u201d such as a red hat, in order to fraudulently obtain their licenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In a related case, Jovana Tameka Nettles, 44, of Norwalk, pleaded guilty on May 17 to three counts of honest services wire fraud. Nettles, a former manager at the DMV office in the Lincoln Park area of Los Angeles, admitted to fraudulently entering passing scores for applicants and issuing instructional permits for applicants who had not taken or passed the required tests in exchange for bribes. Nettles\u2019 sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In another related matter, Taliesha Shunte Ratliff, 37, of Gardena, a former DMV employee in Torrance, pleaded guilty in August 2020 to a single-count information charging her with soliciting and accepting bribes. She is expected to be sentenced in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Also, Otto Escobar, Sr., 63, of Granada Hills, pleaded guilty in November 2020 to one count of aiding and abetting concerning programs receiving federal funds. Escobar, who formerly operated the Van Nuys-based OK Driving School, admitted in his plea agreement that, from 2015 to 2017, he charged his customers a fee for obtaining a fraudulent passing DMV score, and to facilitate the fraud, and he collected money used to bribe DMV employees to commit the fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4009695873MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Escobar\u2019s sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 7, at which time he will face 10 years in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted alleged \u201cbrokers\u201d accused of scheming to illegally obtain driver\u2019s licenses for ineligible applicants by paying bribes to corrupt employees of the California Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courts-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grand Jury Indicts DMV Employees Who Took Bribes to Issue Driver&#039;s Licenses<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted alleged \u201cbrokers\u201d accused of scheming to illegally obtain driver\u2019s licenses for ineligible\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=42770\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grand Jury Indicts DMV Employees Who Took Bribes to Issue Driver&#039;s Licenses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted alleged \u201cbrokers\u201d accused of scheming to illegally obtain driver\u2019s licenses for ineligible\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=42770\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Justice Notebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-20T05:56:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/california-dmv.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"304\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=42770#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=42770\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Raul\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\"},\"headline\":\"Grand Jury Indicts DMV Employees Who Took Bribes to Issue Driver&#8217;s Licenses\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-20T05:56:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=42770\"},\"wordCount\":833,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=42770#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/california-dmv.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Courts &amp; 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