Update: Former DMV clerk on trial in license fraud case
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PROVIDENCE -- The trial of a former Department of Motor Vehicles clerk accused of issuing valid state drivers' licenses that were sold to ineligible individuals started this morning in U.S. District Court. Dolores Rodríguez LaFlamme, 41, of Providence, has been charged with conspiracy, fraudulently producing drivers' licenses and identity theft. She also faces 19 counts of identity fraud and 14 of conspiracy to commit a felony in Providence County Superior Court. The charges result from an alleged scam at the state Division of Motor Vehicles, uncovered by state police last fall, in which people paid middlemen to obtain the licenses for false identity. According to a grand jury indictment, other participants in the licensing scam met with prospective license applicants, who paid them between $700 and $2,500 for the licenses. LaFlamme is accused of producing 30 licenses and banking $40,000. This morning, Joseph Monteiro, the DMV's chief of enforcement, testified for the U.S. government on the illicit transactions' paper trail. Also on the government's witness list is Soraya Santiago, whom federal prosecutor Richard Rose described as LaFlamme's accomplice. Santiago, of Pawtucket, who had worked with LaFlamme at the DMV in Pawtucket since 2000, pleaded no contest to one count of identity fraud in April. She was given a three-year suspended sentence with probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. -- With reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney and Journal archival reports Santiago originally faced 11 counts of identity theft and 11 counts of conspiracy to commit identity theft. LaFlamme is being represented by lawyer Arthur Chatfield. The trial will resume at 1:45 p.m. If convicted, LaFlamme could face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for conspiracy and fraudulently producing identity documents; and two years in prison and a $250,000 fine for fraudulent use of identity. LaFlamme pleaded not guilty to the charges on May 15 before Magistrate Judge David L. Martin, who ordered her detained. 
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I have visited the dmv where these women worked.I felt one of these two women were extremely rude. the first woman got off easy as far as Im concerned.
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It's odd that this person will go to jail and Barrack Obama, who wants to do the same exact thing will go to the WhiteHouse.
What a strange world
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How can you be a leader in the Latino community and yet be an illegal alien and work for the state? Come on righteous left. Let's defend the illegal alien that was giving out licenses to other illegal aliens. They are hard working right? WRONG. These two were peddling them off to known felons, drug dealers etc who are trying to avoid detection. MYTH BUSTED. Kick their sorry behinds out of the USA and let her whip up some licenses in the Dominican which is clearly where she belongs. If all goes well she'll get prison time, then deported and forever blacklisted for return to the USA. This woman and her friend unleased felons upon this country for her personal gain and didn't care who they hurt. There is no crime lower and she isn't even a citizen.
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