{"id":1100,"date":"2008-01-17T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/more-dc-government-corruption\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T10:50:32","slug":"more-dc-government-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"More DC government corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo from Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n

This time corrupt workers in the Washington, DC government have committed a crime which may affect the entire country (Washington Examiner<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers raided the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles branch in Georgetown on Wednesday, arresting one city employee and four other suspects on charges they set up a scheme to sell fake District driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licenses.<\/p>\n

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Authorities would not identify the suspects late Wednesday as the investigation continued, although they said some of those arrested were non-U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

The probe began about a year ago after a DMV internal investigator working on a case outside D.C. noticed irregularities in records from the Georgetown service center, department director Lucinda Babers said.<\/p>\n

The agency informed the D.C. Office of the Attorney General, which then contacted the FBI. Babers was informed of the investigation about three months ago, she said.<\/p>\n

Babers did not know how many fraudulent driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licenses were sold out of the satellite service center, located at the bottom floor of the Georgetown Mall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Knowing that fraudulent drivers’ licenses from across the river in Alexandria were used by 9-11 hijackers, and the DC government not knowing how many fake licenses were sold indicates that this could have wide-ranging implications. Of course, his lordship, Mayor fenty doesn’t think he has corruption in his administration;<\/p>\n

He deflected questions about whether the arrests were a further indication of widespread corruption among city employees. Instead, he said they were a sign that security safeguards were working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone has been selling illegal licenses for more than a year, and just as in the Harriet Walters case (when a bank notified the Feds and then the Feds notified the DC government after more than $20 million went missing from City coffers), the Feds had to tell DC government nine months into their investigation that something was amiss – what safeguards, Mayor Fenty? You have no safeguards if the Feds have to tell you about the criminals in your government.<\/p>\n

But probably most stunning was department director Lucinda Babers’ statement;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everything we do has a black market value,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Babers said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are people who approach our employees on a daily basis to see if they can entice them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See? It’s our fault. If we didn’t tempt DC government employees with stuff, they wouldn’t be corrupt. Shame on us!<\/p>\n

And DC voters perpetuate this cycle of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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