‘The finger nails kind of gave it away’: DMV employees face felonies for taking tests to get commercial driver’s licenses for others

While the federal government cracks down on illegal aliens who obtained commercial driver’s licenses from California, the state of New York has its own scandal where employees of the Department of Motor Vehicles were allegedly getting paid to take the written driving tests on behalf of trucker-wannabes.

Seven people, including DMV employees, have been charged with 51 felony counts by the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office on Long Island.

“Bypassing that safeguard is far from a harmless shortcut, it is a dangerous threat to public safety,” said New York Inspector General Lucy Lang last month.

WABC-TV reported: “Among those charged include Kanaisha Middleton, a supervisor at the Garden City branch of the DMV, as well as her sister, Jamie Middleton, who is accused of taking at least 10 different permit tests for no-show drivers.