Four DMV workers charged in bribery scheme

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OAKLAND, Calif. - Four Department of Motor Vehicles employees and four others were charged in a bribery scheme to provide driver's licenses and state identification cards to illegal immigrants and others, according to federal prosecutors.

The indictments by a federal grand jury were unsealed Thursday.

DMV worker Frances Aliganga, 53, of Fairfield allegedly conspired with Veronica Rivera, 53, of Daly City in a cash-for-licenses scam from November 2003 through this June.

Rivera, who didn't work for DMV, allegedly offered to sell the cards to illegal immigrants for $3,000 to $4,500 each, prosecutors said. The indictment said Rivera provided fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers for people to use in their DMV applications and Aliganga then granted the licenses.

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