NYC driving school rigged driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — even if they couldn’t drive: DA
纽约驾驶学校为非法移民伪造驾照——即使他们不会开车：检方指控
A Big Apple driving school paid off DMV examiners to fraudulently fast-track driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — even if they had no clue how to drive, Staten Island prosecutors said Tuesday.
纽约一家大型驾驶学校贿赂了 DMV 考官，为非法移民欺诈性地快速发放驾驶执照——即使他们根本不会开车，史泰登岛检察官星期二表示。
T&E Driving School in Queens took cash from Chinese immigrants — many of whom didn’t even speak English — and paid off a crew of Department of Motor Vehicles employees on Staten Island to illegally obtain driver’s licenses, District Attorney Michael McMahon said at a press conference.
皇后区的 T&E 驾驶学校向许多甚至连英语都不会说的中国移民收取现金，并贿赂了史泰登岛交通部的一群员工，非法获得驾驶执照，地区检察官迈克尔·麦卡亨在新闻发布会上表示。
The crackdown, dubbed Operation Road Test, took down the ring in a joint investigation with state investigators and the US Department of Homeland Security, prosecutors said.
这次打击行动被称为“路考行动”，在州调查人员和美国国土安全部的联合调查下，摧毁了这个团伙，检察官表示。
4Staten Island prosecutors said a Queens driving school ran a DMV pay-to-drive scam for illegal immigrants.
斯塔滕岛检察官表示，皇后区的驾驶学校为非法移民运营了 DMV 付费驾驶骗局。Michael McWeeney 迈克尔·麦克威尼
“Our investigation found that T&E Driving School blatantly flouted the laws and procedures that are necessary to ensure the public safety on the road,” George Ioannidis, assistant special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in New York said Tuesday.
“我们的调查发现，T&E 驾驶学校公然无视确保道路公共安全的法律和程序，”纽约国土安全调查局助理特别代理乔治·伊奥安尼迪斯星期二表示。
“As alleged T&E utilized social media and strategic advertising to Target exploited members of the Chinese community and guaranteed individual driver’s licenses regardless of their immigration status, language, and even their ability to operate a vehicle,” he said.
“据称，T&E 利用社交媒体和策略性广告针对中国社区中被剥削的成员，并保证无论其移民身份、语言能力甚至驾驶能力如何，都能获得个人驾驶执照，”他说。
“Moreover these individuals were those who did not speak or understand English and may have believed that they all were taking necessary and legitimate steps.”
“此外，这些人中许多既不会说英语也不懂英语，可能认为他们都在采取必要且合法的步骤。”
T&E owner Weixian Tan, secretary Weiwen Tan, employee Winnie Yang and school road test driver Wenfeng Yang set up the scam by paying off DMV examiners Aji Idicula, Tianna Rose Andolina and Edward Tarik Queen, according to the indictment.
根据起诉书，T&E 所有者谭伟仙、秘书谭伟文、员工杨婉妮和学校路考司机杨文峰通过贿赂 DMV 考官艾吉·伊迪库拉、蒂安娜·罗丝·安德奥拉和爱德华·塔里克·奎恩来设立骗局。
4Staten Island DA Michael McMahon said the T&E driving school ran a DMV fraud scam for illegal immigrants.
史泰登岛地区检察官迈克尔·麦卡伦表示，T&E 驾驶学校为非法移民运营了一个欺骗性 DMV 诈骗。James Messerschmidt 詹姆斯·梅塞施密特
4Wenfend Yang and three other employees of T&E Driving School are charged with an illegal immigrant DMV scam.
温芬·杨和 T&E 驾驶学校的另外三名员工被指控参与针对非法移民的 DMV 诈骗。Michael McWeeney 迈克尔·麦克威尼
The examiners would then rubber stamp the wanna-be drivers without even having them take a road test.
考官们甚至不让他们参加路考，就直接盖章通过这些想考驾照的人。
McMahon said the scam extends beyond the seven named indictments, with two dozen suspects in custody and another indicted DMV employee not identified in the 49-page document.
麦克马洪表示，这场骗局超出了七项指控的范围，已有二十多名嫌疑人被拘留，而 49 页文件中未指明的另一名被指控的 DMV 雇员也未被提及。
“The numbers, as we go through this investigation, as we go through the materials that have been seized, we think that we are going to find hundreds if not thousands of people that have been part of this scam,” the prosecutor said.
“随着我们进行这项调查，随着我们查获的资料越来越多，我们认为我们将发现数百甚至数千人参与了这场骗局，”检察官说。
“The number of tests given by an individual examiner can be about 1,500 a year,” he said. “Two out of the three examiners have been working for four or five years, so we think this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
“一个考官每年可以给出大约 1,500 次考试，”他说。“三分之二以上的考官已经工作了四五年，所以我们认为这只是冰山一角。”
4Staten Island prosecutors said DMV examiners took illegal payoffs to issue fraudulent licenses to immigrants.
斯塔滕岛检察官表示，DMV 的考官收取了非法贿赂，向移民发放了欺诈性执照。Getty Images
In a statement, McMahon called the pay-to-drive scheme a “corrosively corrupt” operation centered on DMV workers who “brazenly betrayed their oaths of office.”
在一份声明中，麦克马洪将这种付费驾驶计划称为一个“腐蚀性腐败”的运作，其中心是那些“公然背叛其宣誓职责”的 DMV 工作人员。
The defendants were arraigned on a slew of fraud, tampering and theft charges and were released — the charges are not eligible for bail under the state’s controversial 2019 criminal justice reforms.
被告被控一系列欺诈、篡改和盗窃罪名，并被释放——根据州在 2019 年实施的有争议的刑事司法改革，这些罪名不符合保释条件。
However, they were ordered to surrender their passports.
然而，他们被要求交出护照。
