Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly and New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang announced on Oct. 9 a 51-count indictment against three New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”) employees, the sister of one of the employees, and three commercial driver’s license (CDL) applicants, including two Town of Hempstead employees, for engaging in a scheme to cheat on CDL exams and process permits for no-show CDL applicants.
Former DMV Supervisor Kanaisha Middleton, 33; Motor Vehicle Representative Tawanna Whitfield, 36; Motor Vehicle Representative Satoya Mitchell, 35; and Kanaisha Middleton’s sister, Jamie Middleton, 35, were arraigned on indictment charges of:
- impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination (a D felony);
- corrupting the government in the fourth degree (an E felony);
- tampering with public records in the first degree (a D felony);
- falsifying business records in the first degree (an E felony); and
- falsifying business records in the second degree (an A misdemeanor).
CDL permit applicants James Nurse, 42; Omesh Mohan, 42; and Rene Sarduy, 44, were also charged in the indictment with tampering with public records in the first degree and falsifying business records in the first degree.
Mitchell, Whitfield, Nurse, and Jamie Middleton surrendered to Nassau County DA (NCDA) Detective Investigators and were arraigned on Oct. 1. They were released on their own recognizance and were each due back in court on Nov. 6…