New York accuses 19 of cheating on driver's license tests

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York state, city and federal prosecutors have arrested 19 people accused of scheming to cheat on tests for licenses to drive school buses and operate trucks hauling hazardous materials.

State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. said Thursday that people paid thousands of dollars to get test answers.

They say applicants would leave the testing site and hand blank tests to one of the organizers of the scam, or a "runner," who would take the form to someone who could fill in the correct answers.

Officials say security guards received cash bribes of $1,500 to $2,500 for their roles in the scheme.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9262543

[PoliticAverse]

1. Cheating on a test to drive a school bus, nice. n/t

[hrmjustin]

2. And truck drivers as well. There are more arrests to come.