Tuesday, November 08, 2005

No news is good news

Judge nearing decision in driver's license case
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — A man accused of helping thousands of illegal immigrants fraudulently obtain Oregon driver's licenses will soon learn his fate from a Washington County judge.

Twelve people have been arrested in the case, which federal immigration officials describe as the largest immigration fraud in Oregon. Eight have pleaded guilty and been sentenced.

Oregon allows illegal immigrants who can prove they live in the state to get driver's licenses, but prosecutors say most of Robleto's customers received licenses fraudulently because they lived elsewhere.

Nice of the AP to actually cover this one. No thanks to the state's largest Fishwrapper. Are their reporters only covering fancy taxpayer-subsidized developments in Portland these days? Is that all that excites them?

5 comments:

MAX Redline said...

"Oregon allows illegal immigrants who can prove they live in the state to get driver's licenses, but prosecutors say most of Robleto's customers received licenses fraudulently because they lived elsewhere."

Oregon condones fraud in the first place; Robleto's only crime was widening the circle of friends a bit. Well, that and he probably wasn't contributing to the DMV's bottom line...

Anonymous said...

Lets have a pool bet on how many months Robleto is going to draw.

As a retired State employee can we expect him to start a consulting biz, from jail?

The Cheezer said...

Robleto will walk. Why? because this is Oregon and Judges here only prosecute you if you are conservative and fly in the face of the liberal agenda.
This will go down as act of humanity.

Gunslinger said...

If he was doing this as an employee of an agency, he will walk.

Let's just hope that the judge is smart enough to know that this guy is begging to be made an example of.

Daniel said...

The judge will throw the book at him... if he has some undisclosed property interests in the case a la James & Lipscum. (not a spelling error)