Bosnians busted in Driver License scam
Posted by Ann Corcoran on January 30, 2008
In the aftermath of Bill Clinton’s war in Bosnia, the United States admitted over 100,000 Bosnian Muslims as refugees. They got taxpayer funded airfare, a rent subsidy, food stamps, health care, and a caseworker to find them a job. Here’s how they repay the charity. (Hat tip: Janet Levy)
The FBI has cracked a Spokane-based ring that it says paid bribes to a state contractor and used foreign-language interpreters to help Bosnian immigrants cheat on tests to obtain commercial driver licenses fraudulently from the state of Washington.
Read the whole story at the SpokesmanReview.com.
Washington State has received 89,000 refugees through 2005 and nearly 5000 of those are from the former Yugoslavia.
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acorcoran said
Thanks Blulite, between the drivers licenses and the food stamp scams they are busy.
blulitespecial said
Again? Most likely this is but one front of several.Planes and semi tankers with a full load of fuel come to mind-
2006- “SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Bradley J. Schlozman, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the superintendent of a West Plains, Mo., truck-driving school and the owner of a Kansas City, Mo., truck-driving school were among 15 co-defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for mail fraud related to a conspiracy to provide commercial driver’s licenses to more than 70 Somali and Bosnian nationals.”
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow/news2006/proffitt.ind.htm