Yet one more member of a Massachusetts State Police unit who conspired handy out unearned business drivers licenses to “golden” candidates has pleaded responsible to his function.
Scott Camara, 44, pleaded responsible to 1 rely of conspiracy to falsify data and one rely of perjury. The primary carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail and the second a most of 5 years in jail. U.S. District Court docket Decide Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing for July 21.
Camara, one in every of two civilian defendants, was charged with 5 others in January 2024 in a 74-count indictment. The prolonged doc alleged that members of the MSP’s CDL unit, which is liable for testing candidates to federal requirements for business trucking, fraudulently handed candidates who had offered items or companies in trade for passing the troublesome take a look at.
Examples embody a $10,000 driveway and a $2,000 snow blower, each of which have been for alleged chief Sgt. Gary Cederquist, who’s at the moment on trial for his function. One other defendant, Perry Mendes, pleaded responsible on Tuesday.
The indictment alleges that between Might 2019 and January 2023, the unit gave computerized passing scores to at the very least 17 CDL candidates no matter their skill on the abilities take a look at, or in the event that they even really took the abilities take a look at in any respect.
Every defendant is charged with numerous counts of extortion, sincere companies mail fraud, conspiracy, false statements, and falsification of data.
