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March 12, 2008

Ex-Conn. DMV worker guilty in illegal license scam

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A former state Department of Motor Vehicles employee has pleaded guilty to supplying dozens of illegal immigrants with Connecticut driver's licenses.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kimyatta Lynn Little of Bridgeport had been charged with racketeering, bribery and forgery.

The prosecutor says she will recommend that Little serve a five-year prison term when she is sentenced Aug. 1.

Little is the seventh Bridgeport branch employee to either plead guilty or be convicted of selling driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and convicted felons.

Authorities have tracked down nearly 2,000 illegal licenses that were sold by Bridgeport DMV employees since 2003.

Similar schemes have been uncovered across the country, according to the FBI.

In Rhode Island, two Registry clerks were arrested in October last year and charged by the state police in a wide-ranging scheme of falsifying dozens of Rhode Island driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and people involved in drug dealing.

Dolores Rodriguez-LaFlamme, 40, of Providence, and Soraya Santiago, 42, of Pawtucket, are accused of working with two middlemen, who were paid about $2,500 to $3,000 by each person who wanted a valid Rhode Island license with a fake identity.

They've been fired from their jobs. Their criminal cases are pending, and they're due back in court March 24.

-- The Associated Press with projo.com reports

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