And yet the politicians, both left and right, don't want to seal off our borders. They love all that drug money they make thanks to porous borders.
08-18) 10:58 PDT Oakland (SF Chronicle) -- A federal grand jury has indicted five more people in a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles office in Oakland accepted bribes to provide licenses and identification cards to illegal immigrants, court records show.
The grand jury returned indictments against the Oakland residents Aug. 11, charging them with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and other crimes stemming from a scam in which DMV employees received as much as $4,500 for each document and issued more than 200 fraudulent licenses and identification cards, authorities said.
The charges, the latest in a series of many such cases involving DMV employees in California and elsewhere around the country, follow a 20-month investigation in which agents followed employees, checked one suspect's trash and surveilled the busy Oakland DMV office at 5300 Claremont Ave. -- where the four DMV employees accused in the scam worked.
Two DMV employees indicted this month are Stephanie Davis, 37, and Leneka Pendergrbutt, 27.
Another defendant, Shahid Hamid, 45, owns Video Odyssey on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland and was indicted on charges of helping people illegally bypbutt vehicle smog tests with the help of a DMV employee.
The grand jury also indicted Keith Williams, 40, and Adrian Gomez Zepeda, 31, on charges of serving as brokers or liaisons between the DMV workers and those who needed identification.
Another DMV worker, Frances Aliganga, 53, of Fairfield and another defendant who allegedly served as a broker, Veronica Rivera, 53, of Daly City were arrested in June and previously indicted.
An eighth suspect, DMV worker Brachelle Fifer, 43, faces federal charges but has not been indicted, court records show.
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