After helping hundreds of applicants obtain their CDLs through less-than-legal means, one of four fraudsters has been sentenced to just six months in prison.
Adrian Salari was snapped up as part of a joint FBI, Homeland Security, and DOT investigation into Larex, Inc., a CDL school in Florida. The three agencies determined that between 400 and 600 or more people had paid $2,000-$5,000 for help obtaining their CDLs through Larex.
Students received help cheating on the written portion, could pay an additional $75 for a ‘passing’ grade on their skills test, and some were even provided with false documentation showing them to be Florida residents when they really came in from all over the country.
The charges brought against Salari were incredibly serious – as one might expect from a joint FBI and Homeland Security investigation. The maximum prison sentence for the charges was 30 years.
Despite the severity of the crimes however, Salari pled guilty to just conspiracy to unlawfully produce Florida driver’s licenses and CDLs. He was sentenced to six months in prison and a year of supervised release.
Source: overdrive, truckersreport
Totally inadequate punishment for putting totally unqualified idiots in truck seats, endangering all those around them.
Agreed. The roads are bad enough without this type of shenanigans. All the harm those drivers did should be put on this guy.
Should be a lot longer in prison! He made big bucks and could have been providing terrorist with false identification !
So wht happened to all 400 to 600 cdl drivers that got their licenses this way.????
All of those licences were cancelled
I think this goes on in more places than just this one. I wonder daily how some of these terrible drivers, out here, got their license at all.
You know that really makes me mad I worked my butt off to get my CDL and I earned them ,now you got 400 to 600 hundred unqualified people driving a vehicle that could hurt and kill a lot of people ,these trucks are not play toys ,this job is not play time this is serious business ,and six months is not enough time for the real danger he put people in.
This is what Srt did to me and several other people
That is so wrong…..If prosecutor had a good case, he should have taken the case to a judge, Not to plea it out, but all the way.
How many cases like this one are out there that have not been discovered yet? What about the Fine? This man made over $250,000.00 Dols.