Everyone charged in the long-running investigation was ultimately convicted and sentenced, except for one suspect who died before trial.
They included employees at the California Department of Motor Vehicles who accepted bribes to record fake scores for applicants' written and driving tests, including some who could not pass the exams and others who had not even taken the tests, prosecutors said. Among them was longtime DMV employee Shawana Denise Harris, 52, of Phelan. She was sentenced to five years in federal prison earlier this month for updating test scores for at least 185 commercial drivers license applicants.
"Allowing unqualified drivers to operate heavy commercial trucks on our highways is honestly quite chilling," Carol Webster, acting assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations office in Sacramento, said at the time.Harris received the longest sentence of anyone, although two others were sentenced to more than four years in prison and three suspects to more than three years.